Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Two Kurdish Sunni religious figures, Hossein Khosravi and Hiwa Nouri, have been released on bail from Orumiyeh Central Prison after being charged with "armed insurrection" (baghi), while the case of a third accused cleric, Soleyman Adhami, has been transferred to the Special Clerical Court in Tabriz, East Azerbaijan Province, where he remains in temporary custody. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Khosravi,...

Hossein Khosravi and Soleyman Adhami, two Sunni Kurdish clerics, and religious activist Hiwa Nouri, who are currently being held in Orumiyeh Central Prison in West Azerbaijan Province, have been charged with "armed insurrection" (baghi). Khosravi and Adhami, imams of mosques in villages near Baneh and Bukan, and Nouri were arrested by the Ministry of Intelligence forces in Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province, on 29 and 30...