Political prisoners in Rajaee Shahr Prison in Karaj are currently undergoing a 72-hour hunger strike in protest of degrading treatment by Special Guard forces, a local source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. On April 17, Special Guard forces stormed the prison’s Ward 4, Hall 12, where political prisoners are kept, […]
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U.S. Issues Country Reports On Human Rights Practices (Situation of Dervish Lawyers)
The U.S. State Department has released its “Country Reports On Human Rights Practices” for 2012, highlighting crackdowns on civil society, struggles for democratic change, and threats to freedom of expression. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry presented the reports to the media in Washington on April 19. The document states that “governments continued to […]
Radio Zamaneh reports: Latest dervish arrest seems linked to website
Iranian authorities have arrested another Gonabadi dervish, Abdolghafour Ghalandarinejad, in Bandar Abbas. The Majzooban-e Noor website reports that security officials arrived at Ghalandarinejad’s home on the morning of Saturday April 20 and, after confiscating his laptop, computer, books and CDs, they put him under arrest. Ghalandarinejad was also arrested last August and transferred to the […]
More quakes felt in six Iranian provinces
Earthquakes measuring between 3 and 5 on the Richter scale have rocked six Iranian provinces since 11 PM last night, April 19, stretching into the early hours of today, Saturday. IRNA reports that the largest of these quakes happened at 2:11 AM in the city of Ahl in the central province of Fars. It […]
Gonabadi Dervishes Gather in Front of Bandar Abbas’s Intelligence Office
The Gonabadi Dervishes residing in the city of Bandar Abbas, gathered in front of Hormozgan Province’s Intelligence office this morning on Saturday, 31 Farvardin 1392 ( April 20, 2013).According to Majzooban Noor, this morning, after the arrest of Abdolghafour Ghalandari Nejad, one of the collaborators of Majzooban Noor website, his family along with more […]
Detention of Gonabadi Dervish, Abdolghafour Ghalandari Nejad in The City of Bandar Abbas
Abdolghafour Ghalandari Nejad, Gonabadi Dervish and one of the collaborators of Majzooban Noor website , arrested at his own home in the city of Bndar Abbas this morning on Saturday, 31 Farvardin 1392 ( April 20, 2013).According to Majzooban Noor, around 6 o’clock in the morning, security forces and plain-clothes entered to the house […]
Belgian Minister shares concern of religious persecution such as dervishes in Iran
In a mail the Belgian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Didier Reynders expresses his concern about the human rights situation in Iran in general and the persecution of religious minorities, such as the dervishes, in particular. “Your mail of 15 April had my full attention. I share your concern about the […]
Health concerns rise for jailed Iranian activist
The wife of political prisoner Mehdi Khazali says her husband is being held in a “tight cell without any basic services” and his health is seriously at risk. The Kaleme website reports that a number of political activists visited the family of jailed activist Mehdi Khazali, and they were told that his calls to […]
CPJ urges Iranian authorities to release journalists
New York, April 18, 2013–The cases of an Iranian blogger imprisoned for seven months without trial and a prominent freelance journalist whose health has deteriorated in prison illustrate the ongoing abuses being perpetrated by Iranian authorities, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Kaveh Taheri, a blogger who has been held at […]
Public Outcry in Kurdish City After Male Suspect Paraded in Female Clothing
A group of Kurdish activist women from Marivan, along with a few citizens of the city, held a demonstration April 16 on the main streets of the city in protest of the authorities’ parading a man in Marivan after dressing him in the traditional women’s clothing of Kurdistan, a local source told the International […]