Last Thursday, the famous Tohid Center in Tehran held its first gathering after a lull of five years and the occasion was to commemorate the moderate ayatollah Mahmoud Taleghani, a theologian and reformist senior cleric, who had died seven months after the collapse of the Pahlavi regime in 1979. Tohid has a special place […]
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The letter of ” migration from Iran to Evin jail ” Campaign to Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi
The letter of ” migration from Iran to Evin jail ” Campaign to Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi: If Sufism is atheism, then issue a fatwa confirming our apostasy. 2000 of Dervishes who have taken part in the campaign called ” migration from Iran to Evin jail”, by releasing a letter to the Ayatollah Nasser Makarem […]
LETTER TO THE UN; IMPRISONED SUFIS ON THE VERGE OF DEATH!
Tuesday, Sep 16 2014From: Nematollahi Gonabadi SufisTo: The United Nations and other human rights organizations Human beings are members of a whole, In creation of one essence and soulIf one member is afflicted with pain, Other members uneasy will remain Dear brothers of human society;This letter was written on behalf of the […]
Reading the Will of Jailed Dervishes in the UN Human Rights Council Session
The situation of the Religious and Ethnic Minorities in Iran, UN Human Rights Council Geneva. Monday 15/09/2014Speech of E.Beverly for the “International Organization to Preserve in Iran” during the 27nd side session of the UN Human Rights Council, Human Rights of religious minorities in Iran, on the situation of the “Gonabadi Dervishes Hunger Strike […]
Threat of Solitary Confinement to a Prisoner Due to Support of Hunger Striking Dervish Prisoners
Rasoul Hoveyda, non-political and non-Dervish, who has gone on hunger strike to support the demands of the Dervish prisoners, was called into the Evin warden’s office.According to Majzooban Noor, today morning, 24 Shahrivar (Sept 15) Rasoul Hoveyda who is being held in the financial section 8 of Evin prison (Mehriyeh) was summoned to Evin […]
On 12th Days of Dervish Mass Hunger Strike, Omid Behroozi Was Sent to Infirmary
Imprisoned Gonabadi Dervish lawyer in Evin prison, Omid Behroozi was taken to the prison infirmary due to his weak physical condition after 12 days on hunger strike.The reports indicate that, as his condition has become so serious and he was not able to walk, so the head of section 7 along with a prisoner […]
Prison Officials Threaten to Transfer of Jailed Dervish Strikers to Solitary Confinement
Evin prison guards are trying to take the imprisoned Dervishes who are on hunger strike since twelve days ago, to solitary confinement.According to Kalame, following statement from Dervish prisoners announcing mass hunger strike to protest the violations of their constitutional rights, the Evin prison’s Warden, “Momeni” by putting pressure on the prison administrators wanted […]
Sit-in at the Evin Visiting Room by Jailed Dervishes Families; Prison’s Warden Came to Visit Families
After waiting hours and staging a sit-in at Evin’s waiting room, today, 23 Shahrivar 1393 ( September, 14, 2014) around 5 pm, the Prison’s Warden, Javad Momeni came to visit with the families of 8 imprisoned Gonabadi Dervishes.According to reporting by Majzooban Noor, the jailed Dervishes’s families who have refused to leave the meeting […]
Non-political and Non-Dervish Prisoner Joined in Dervishes Hunger Strike
A non-political and non-Dervish prisoner, Rasoul Hoveyda who is being held in the financial section of Evin prison where the two of jailed rights activists of Gonabadi Dervishes are there too , by submitting a letter announced that will go on a hunger strike to express his sympathy with Dervishes.According to Majzooban Noor, Rasoul Hoveyda […]
MP renews call for release of opposition figures
Conservative Iranian MP Ali Motahari has once again urged the Islamic Republic government to release MirHosein Mousavi, Mehdi Karroubi and Zahra Rahnavard, the opposition leaders who have been under house arrest since February 2011 for challenging the legitimacy of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s victory in the 2009 election. Ali Motahari stated that it is not in […]