Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Iran sentences four Sunni Kurdish clerics to total of 11 years in prison

The Special Clerical Court in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province, has sentenced Sunni Kurdish clerics Seyyed Soleyman Ahmadi, Younes Nowkhah, Seyyed Jamaladdin Vazhi and Sharif Mahmoudpour to a total of 11 years in prison. Ahmadi and Nowkhah, teachers at the Salahuddin Ayubi School of Religious Studies in Piranshahr, West Azerbaijan Province, were sentenced to four and three years in prison respectively, while Vazhi, a religious teacher,...

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