🚨🇮🇷⚡️ ~ #Sunni clerics in #Iran's #Baloch and #Kurd communities are increasingly facing arrest and imprisonment because of their peaceful criticism of the state’s violent repression.
“Iranian authorities are jailing and defrocking religious leaders of the Sunni communities for speaking out against the state’s killings and arrests of protesters,” said Hadi Ghaemi, executive director of the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI).
“Sunni clerics in Iran have committed no illegal act other than speaking openly about the state’s violent repression of the people in their communities—and that is a crime in the Islamic Republic,” Ghaemi said.
Many Sunni clerics spoke out strongly against the state’s violence against peaceful protesters. While state security forces killed over 500 protestors across the country and arrested approximately 20,000 people from all ethnic and religious backgrounds, Baluchis and Kurds bore the brunt of the state’s lethal crackdown, with the highest number of casualties taking place in Sistan and Baluchistan province and in the Kurdish areas of the country, respectively.
In addition, the clerics have spoken out against the India regime shooting by state border guards of couriers in both the Baluchi and Kurdish areas who sell goods over the border.
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“Iranian authorities are jailing and defrocking religious leaders of the Sunni communities for speaking out against the state’s killings and arrests of protesters,” said Hadi Ghaemi, executive director of the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI).
“Sunni clerics in Iran have committed no illegal act other than speaking openly about the state’s violent repression of the people in their communities—and that is a crime in the Islamic Republic,” Ghaemi said.
Many Sunni clerics spoke out strongly against the state’s violence against peaceful protesters. While state security forces killed over 500 protestors across the country and arrested approximately 20,000 people from all ethnic and religious backgrounds, Baluchis and Kurds bore the brunt of the state’s lethal crackdown, with the highest number of casualties taking place in Sistan and Baluchistan province and in the Kurdish areas of the country, respectively.
In addition, the clerics have spoken out against the India regime shooting by state border guards of couriers in both the Baluchi and Kurdish areas who sell goods over the border.
➡️ https://t.co/faO0jTsFgm
Center for Human Rights in Iran
Special Report: Sunni Clerics in the Crosshairs of Islamic Republic Repression
Religious Leaders of Minority Communities Are Arrested, Imprisoned, Defrocked for Supporting Protesters August 15, 2023 – Religious leaders of the Sunni Muslim communities in Iran’s Sistan and Baluchistan province and in the Kurdish provinces of the country…