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Tag : Sunni

June 8, 2018

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 Councilman Calls For Action Over Words President Hassan Rouhani has expressed hope that ...

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 Iranshahr on September 28, 2017. More than 100 people, including innocent bystanders, ...

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 protected from discrimination, a former Sunni member of Parliament told the ...

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 capital of Iran’s Khuzestan Province, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned.  ...

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 minority religious group from his cabinet, two former Sunni members of ...

July 24, 2017

Sunni Council in Iran Suspends Operations Amid Ongoing Arrests and Intimidation

Dissident Sunni cleric Hassan Amini is the secretary general of the Sunni Theologians Council of Iran. ...

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 and charged for criticizing the recent mass execution of Sunni ...

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 in detention and have reportedly been subjected to torture aimed at ...

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