Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Mohammad Khezrnezhad, a 45-year-old Sunni Kurdish cleric, has been sentenced to death and 16 years in prison by Branch Three of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province. The charges against him include "spreading corruption on earth" (efsad-e fel arz), "harming the territorial integrity or independence of the country", and "propaganda against the state". A source familiar with the case told the Kurdistan Human...

Branch One of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Piranshahr, West Azerbaijan province, has sentenced Sunni Kurdish cleric Zana Khoshaman to two years and one month in prison. According to the verdict handed down to the cleric on 15 June, he was accused of "acting against national security" through his "membership" of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (KDPI). Security forces arrested Khoshaman and his wife Sinour...

The Special Clerical Court in Hamadan, in north-west Iran, has in recent days convicted Sunni Kurdish clerics Loghman Amini and Ebrahim Karimi Nanaleh for voicing support for the recent anti-government protests. The clerical court sentenced Amini to 11 years in prison, two years of life in exile in Ardabil, in the northwest, permanent revocation of his clerical status and a permanent ban on giving sermons. Nanaleh...

Sunni Kurdish clerics Loghman Amini and Ebrahim Karimi Nanaleh were put on trial on 7 June by the Special Clerical Court in Hamadan, north-west Iran. The clerics were on trial on charges of "propaganda against the state" and "disturbing public opinion" for voicing support for the recent anti-government protests across the country. They were tried without the right to a lawyer, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network...

Sunni Kurdish clerics Loghman Amini and Ebrahim Karimi Nanaleh were summoned to appear before the Special Clerical Court in Hamadan, north-west Iran, on 7 June. Earlier on 30 January, security forces arrested Amini, the imam of the Chahar Yar-e Nabi mosque in Sanandaj, and Karimi Nanaleh, the imam of the Nanaleh village mosque in Sanandaj. After arresting Karimi Nanaleh, security forces raided and searched his family’s...