Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdish Sunni cleric Seyyed Seyfollah Hosseini, who was arrested after the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) raided his home in Javanrud, Kermanshah province, on 13 December 2022, remains in solitary confinement at Hamedan Central Prison, in western Iran. Hosseini is the imam of the Khatam-al Anbiya Mosque and a member of the board of directors of the Kurdistan Quran School in...

The Special Clerical Court of Hamedan, in western Iran, has sentenced Kurdish Sunni cleric Seyyed Seyfollah Hosseini to a total of 17 years in prison, 74 lashes, and two years of living in exile in Ardabil, in north-western Iran, over charges that include "inciting people to disrupt the security of the country". The court has also stripped Hosseini of his clerical status, Kurdistan Human Rights...