Rouhani Calls Suspension of Non-Muslim City Council Member “Really Upsetting”
Sepanta Niknam was suspended from the Yazd City Council for being a member of the Zoroastrian faith. Suspended Zoroastrian ...
Tag : Sunni
October 8, 2017
Innocent Bystanders Killed in Anti-Smuggling Operations in Iran’s Sistan and Baluchestan Province
A three-year-old boy and his father were killed by police men chasing alleged smugglers in the southeastern city of ...
September 29, 2017
Former Sunni MP: Rouhani Government Failing to Uphold Minority Rights Despite Supreme Leader’s Call
The situation of Iran’s Sunni Muslims has not improved since Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei pointed out in a sermon that minorities are constitutionally ...
August 17, 2017
Sunni Arabs Beaten and Arrested in Iran For Praying in Public
Thirteen Sunni Arabs have been beaten by security and plainclothes agents and arrested for publicly praying in Ahvaz, the ...
August 11, 2017
Iranian Sunnis Who Supported Rouhani’s Reelection Feel Snubbed by His Cabinet Picks
Former MP Urges Rouhani to “Expose” Human Rights Violators Iran’s Sunni Muslim community is “disappointed” by President Hassan Rouhani’s decision to exclude members of the ...
July 24, 2017
Sunni Council in Iran Suspends Operations Amid Ongoing Arrests and Intimidation
Dissident Sunni cleric ...
May 31, 2017
Iran’s Top Sunni Cleric Urges President Rouhani to Appoint Religious Minorities to Cabinet
The leader of Iran’s Sunni population told CHRI that Sunnis should be invited to participate in the second-term government of newly re-elected President Hassan Rouhani ...
August 16, 2016
Sunni Cleric Charged with Anti-State Activities for Criticizing Mass Execution
Hassan Amini, a Sunni cleric and Islamic judge based in Sanandaj, the capital of Iran’s Kurdistan Province, has been interrogated ...
January 13, 2016
Sunni Detainees Still Held a Year After Arrest, Reports of Torture and Forced Confessions
A year after the arrest of more than two dozen Sunni Muslim men in southeast Iran, some of them still remain ...