According to HRANA, citing Mizan News Agency, the Judiciary’s Media Center announced that a judicial case had been opened in connection with religious activities on social media and that four citizens had been arrested in this regard.

According to the report, four members of a group known as “Asma Academy” have been formally charged with “promotional activities contrary to the sacred laws of Islam through making baseless and false claims in religious matters,” and detention orders have been issued against them. Several other individuals affiliated with the group have also been summoned by judicial authorities for questioning.

The Judiciary’s Media Center claimed that members of the group, in collaboration with several social media activists and with the aim of generating income, had produced and published religious content, created podcasts, offered educational courses and packages, and organized both in-person and online seminars and workshops.

The report cited “producing and disseminating superstitious and deviant content, insulting religious sanctities, promoting religious invocations with unsubstantiated claims about their effects, and distorting Quranic verses and religious narrations” among the allegations against the group. It further claimed that members had generated revenues amounting to several billion tomans through the sale of courses related to religious invocations and the publication of certain content.

The report did not disclose the identities of those arrested, the dates of their arrests, or their places of detention.