UA: 242/14 Index: MDE 13/051/2014 Iran Date: 25 September 2014 URGENT ACTION HUNGER-STRIKING DERVISHES CRITICALLY ILL Nine jailed members of Iran’s Gonabadi dervish religious minority began a hunger strike on 31 August, in protest at the authorities’ harassment and persecution of Gonabadi dervishes across the country and are now critically ill. They are prisoners […]
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Karroubi in hospital for latest health problem
Iranian opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi, who has been under house arrest since February 2011, has been hospitalized due to gastrointestinal complications. Saham News reported on September 23 that according to his wife, Fatemeh Karroubi, Mehdi Karroubi had been suffering from severe knee pain and shingles for the past four weeks and was being treated […]
Gonabadi Dervishes Urge Jailed Dervishes to End Hunger Strike Through Widespread Requests on Social Networks
After the news about critical and dire condition of nine jailed Dervishes who are still on hunger strike was published, over the past 2 days, a wave of request messages from Gonabadi Dervishes across the country calling on jailed Dervishes to end hunger strike was released in the social networking sites.According to Majzooban Noor, […]
What happened yesterday in Evin meeting room? The imprisoned Dervishes did not come to the meeting room: Visit the injured Dervishes, They are our family
Accompanied by 50 Gonabadi Dervishes, the imprisoned Dervishes’ families came to the meeting room in Evin Prison to visit their loved ones yesterday morning on 1 Mehr 1393 (September 23, 2014). In his meeting with the 8 imprisoned Sufis, the head of Evin Prison rejected the Deputy Prosecutor General’s claim of not being aware […]
Dervish Physicians Plead with Imprisoned Peers to End Hunger Strike
A number of Nematollahi Gonabadi Dervish physicians released a brief message to nine lawyers and rights activists of Gonabadi Dervishes in prisons of Evin and Shiraz’s Nezam asked them to break their hunger strike The physicians have expressed deep concern about the physical condition of imprisoned Dervishes and wrote: Hou121 Brothers! Dear loved ones! […]
The deputy of prosecutor, “Did the Dervishes have any gathering”!in the first attempt to follow up the condition of the jailed Dervishes by their families after a two- day tension.
While one night still has not passed after the bloody attack on the two-day gathering of Dervishes in front of the place of the prosecution, the deputy prosecutor in response to those Dervishes’ families calling for a meeting with their prisoners, mentioned that “if the Dervishes had any gathering”?!According to Majzooban Noor, Mr. Khodabakhshi […]
Interview with Hazrat Haj Dr.Noor Ali Tabandeh “Majzoob Ali Shah” on Sunday, September 21, 2014
This is the audio file and also written interview you will see in the following. It should be mentioned this interview was carried out one day ago including the statements of The Holiness about the events over the past two days and protests of Gonabadi Dervishes due to the security forces and putting pressures on […]
Visiting Iranian leader must be questioned about media freedom
The terrible situation in Iran, described in a UN report, should be raised with President Rouhani during his US visit As Iranian President Hassan Rouhani arrives in New York for the 69th United Nations General Assembly, Reporters Without Borders reiterates its condemnation of the reinforcement of censorship under Rouhani and his many broken […]
Sufi physicians’ Letter to the President: The Dervishes’ hunger strike is the consequence of the speech by the Minister of Intelligence
In a letter to Dr. Hassan Rohani, the Iranian president, a number of Nematollahi Gonabadi Sufi health practitioners highlighted the extremely dangerous health conditions of the Gonabadi Dervishes on hunger strike in Evin and Nezaam-e Shiraz prisons and urged him, as an agent of the law, to prevent the self-willed forces from suppressing the Dervish […]
Radio Zamaneh: Security forces injure protesting dervishes
A second day of protest by Gonabadi dervishes in front of the Tehran Prosecutor’s office was met violently by security forces, who attacked and arrested a number of protesters. The Majzooban-e Noor website reports that riot police used batons and tear gas, and some of dervishes sustained serious injuries such as broken bones. The […]