In the first eight months of 2015, at least 12 Sunni clerics and scholars or those who were teaching or studying in Sistan and Baluchestan were arrested.

These people were Sunni religious activists, none of whose reasons for arrest of have been officially stated by the authorities.

The names of these Sunni activists:
1. Abdul Shakur Naroei

2. Ahmad Rigi Marishan

3. Saeed Yaripour

4. Amin Allah Dehmarde

5. Aman Allah Baluchi

6. Hafez Abdul Rahim Koohi

7. Abdul Rahim Gargij

8. Abdul Hakim Gargij

9. Jome Gorgij

10. Mohammad Baluch

11. Alireza Eshtark

12. Ebrahim Zarrin