HRANA News Agency – A Sunni citizen has been arrested in Ahwaz.

According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), the 45-year old Hadi Bayt-Shaykh-Ahmad, a Sunni convert from Iran’s Ahwazi Arab minority, was arrested at his home address on 6 March 2014.

Human rights activist Karim Dahimi told the HRANA, “Hadi Bayt-Shaykh-Ahmad was an employee at a bank, and due to his conversion from Shiasm to Sunni Islam, he was arrested.”

Sources say his arrest appears to be linked to the recent arrest of more than 20 Ahwazi Sunni converts who had gathered for a Qur’an and Arabic study meeting at a house in the Hay al-Thawra district on 25 February 2014.

A further nine Ahwazi men were arrested earlier this year for ‘religious activism’ in Qal’eh Chan’an, Khuzestan province, after converting to Sunni Islam.