According to reports received by the Hana Human Rights Organization, Mamosta Barzan Maleki, the Friday prayer leader and teacher at Sheikhain Grand Mosque in Sanandaj, was arrested by security forces on Monday, May 26, 2025, following his summons to the Special Clerical Court in Hamedan and appearance at a court hearing.
According to the received information, this Kurdish Sunni cleric had been summoned a day earlier, on Sunday, May 25, 2025, to the Sanandaj Intelligence Office, where he was interrogated for approximately two hours.
Previously, on Monday, January 27, 2025, security forces stopped the vehicle carrying Mamosta Maleki and several of his students on the road between Dehgolan and Sanandaj (20 km from Sanandaj), preventing them from traveling to Zahedan at the official invitation of Makki Mosque, and briefly detained the cleric and his companions.