UN Special Rapporteur Highlights “Culture of Impunity” in Iran (March 22, 2013) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran welcomes the United Nations Human Rights Council’s 26 to 2 vote to extend the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran for the third consecutive year. The Campaign […]
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Detention of Imprisoned Dervishes’s Families When Celebrated Nowruz in Front of Prison
Nowruz, the Iranian New Year’s Eve Celebration was held in front of prisons by the families of imprisoned Gonabadi Dervishes in Tehran’s Evin and Shiraz’s Adel Abad prison on Wednesday, Esfand 30, 1391 (March 20, 2013).According to Majzooban Noor, jailed Dervishes’s families in Shiraz’s Adel Abad prison and imprisoned Dervishes’s families in Tehran’s Evin […]
The situation of the Gonabadi Dervishes, UN Human Rights Council Geneva
Sudwind – Speech during the 22nd Session of the UN Human Rights Council on the situation of the “Gonabadi Dervishes”, 14 March 2013 in Geneva Thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak on behalf of the International Organization to Preserve Human Rights in Iran. I am a Western woman who is living […]
Gonabadi Dervishes Celebrate Nowruz Eid
Nematollahi Gonabadi Dervishes have celebrated the Nowruz Eid by presence of His Holiness, Haj Dr.NoorAli Tabandeh “Majzoob Ali Shah” the Grand Qutb of Nematollahi Gonabadi Order and other great shaikhs which will continue over three consecutive days(1st, 2nd and 3rd Farvardin) in Amirsoleimani worship-place ( Hosseiniyeh) from today in the morning 0n 1st of Farvardin […]
Happy Nowruz 1392
Did you hear that winter’s over? The basiland the carnations cannot control their laughter. The nightingale, back from hiswandering, has been made singing master over the birds. The trees reach out theircongratulations. The soul goes dancing through the king’s doorway. Anemones blushbecause they have seen the rose naked. Spring, the only fair judge, walks […]
UN head praises Nowruz as unifying force
The UN Secretary General issued a message on the occasion of Nowruz and the arrival of spring. “On this International Day of Nowruz, I offer my best wishes to those who celebrate, and express hope that all people can use the occasion to reflect on the beauty of nature, the promise of spring and […]
The Iranian New Year: Nowruz
Introduction The oldest of Iranian traditions, Nowruz (also referred to as eyd-i sar-i sal and eyd-i sal-i now) recalls the cosmological and mythological times of Iran. Its founder is a deputy of Ahura Mazda on earth, a position that imparts to him and the celebration a spiritual dimension and a particular sense of secular authority. […]
Condemn Systemic Violations and Renew the UN Special Rapporteur’s Mandate
This week, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran joined 16 other human rights organizations in a joint letter asking the United Nations Human Rights Council to renew the mandate Special Rapporteur on the situation of Human Rights in Iran Ahmed Shaheed. The organizations also urged the council to “Strengthen the resolution of […]
Jailed Gonabadi Dervishes’s Families’s Resistance, Resulted/ They Could Meet at 8 PM
The families of seven imprisoned Gonabadi Dervishes in Evin prison, who had gone there to visit jailed Dervishes and refused to leave the prison visiting room until they would be allowed to visit their loved ones, after 10 hours of waiting could meet them.According to Majzooban Noor, yesterday morning on 18th Esfand 1391 (March […]
The Families of Imprisoned Dervishes Threatened With Arrest
The families of seven imprisoned Gonabadi Dervishes in Evin prison, have been trapped for hours inside the prison visiting room.According to Majzooban Noor, today, 18th Esfand 1391 (March 18 2013), in the morning the families of seven Dervish lawyers and Majzooban Noor website’s managers had gone to the prison visiting room to meet with […]