Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Loghman Amini, the Friday prayer leader of the Chahar Yar-e Nabi mosque and a religious studies teacher in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, was provisionally released today from Hamadan Central Prison

Kurdish Sunni cleric Barzan Maleki was taken into custody on 26 May after being summoned to the Speical Clerical Court of Hamadan. Maleki, who is an imam and religious instructor at the Sheikheyn

Iran's Supreme Court has overturned the death sentence of Mohammad Khezrnezhad, a Kurdish Sunni cleric arrested during the Women, Life, Freedom anti-government uprising. State news agencies

Branch 41 of Iran's Supreme Court, presided over by Judge Razini, upheld the death sentence and 16-year prison term for Kurdish Sunni cleric Mohammad Khezrnezhad in early April, the Kurdistan Human

Security forces raided the home of Kurdish Sunni cleric Mohammad Sharifi in Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province, arresting him without a warrant on 27 August. Sources indicate that during the

The Special Clerical Court in Hamadan in western Iran has sentenced Kurdish Sunni cleric Arman Sadeghi to seven and a half months in prison, 74 lashes and the revocation of his clerical status for

Iran's Special Clerical Court in Hamadan sentenced Kurdish Sunni cleric Saber Khoda-Moradi to seven months in prison and 74 lashes in the past few days, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has

Iran's Ministry of Intelligence detained Kurdish Sunni clerics Jafar Parvini and Ali Rahimi after summoning them in Piranshahr, West Azerbaijan province, on 20 February. The two clerics were

Detained Kurdish Sunni clerics Sharif Mahmudpour and Seyyed Soleiman Ahmadi were released on bail from Orumieh Central Prison on 12 February. Another Kurdish cleric Younes Nowkhah's detention has