Responses to Human Rights Abuses in Iran 1. The United Nations Human Rights Council has re-elected Ahmad Shaheed, the special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Iran for another year. This is the third year in which Ahmad Shaheed will be working with human rights in Iran.2. Alireza Roshan and Mostafa Abdi are activists in […]
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Longtime Iranian political activist, Dr. Ahmad Sadr Haj Seyed Javadi Died
Veteran Iranian political activist Dr. Ahmad Sadr Haj Seyed Javadi (24 June 1917 – 31 March 2013), who co-founded the Freedom Movement, a nationalist-religious organization, has died at the age of 96 in Tehran on Sunday 11 Farvardin 1392 (31 March 2013)He was born into a clerical family in Qazvin on 24 June 1917. […]
Transfer of Kasra Nouri to No.100 of Shiraz/ Growing Pressure on Jailed Dervishes by the Judiciary
Gonabadi Dervish, Kasra Nouri in 75th day of his hunger strike was taken to intelligence detention center of Shiraz (known as Pelak sad/ No. 100) where he was interrogated and beaten.According to Majzooban Noor, this morning 11 Farvardin 1392 (March 31, 2013), Kasra Nouri who along with other Gonabadi Dervish, Saleh Moradi is on […]
Security and Intelligence Forces’s Outrageous Demand From Family Members of Dervishes
The Families of imprisoned Dervishes announced that, the Ministry of Information has asked them to declare: “All detained dervishes in Tehran’s Evin and Shiraz’s Adel Abad prison are not Dervishes (!) and not related to Nematollahi Gonabadi order and would act independently!”According to Majzooban Noor, in an interview with “Raha News”, the wife of […]
German Foreign Ministry’s Statement on the Status of Dervishes in Iran
The human rights officer at the German Foreign Ministry, Mr. Markus Löning expressed concern over the health condition of the two Gonabadi Dervishes who are on hunger strike.As 22 imprisoned Green Movement activists have issued an open letter urging them to end their refusal to eat.The German Foreign Ministry on Thursday (28 March / 8 […]
Collective Meetings of Dervishes With Saleh Moradi and Kasra Nouri’s Families
A large number of Gonabadi Dervishes residents of Shiraz, at a meeting with families of imprisoned Dervishes in Adel Abad prison, Saleh Moradi and Kasra Nouri who are currently on hunger strike for 74 days, by appeasing their families, requested them to convey their feeling and messages to jailed Dervishes to end their hunger […]
A Report On Situation Of Imprisoned Gonabadi Dervishes Under Harsh Conditions In Section 209 of Evin Prison
It is now more than 70 days that imprisoned Gonabadi Dervishes’s lawyers have endured inhumane conditions of the Intelligence Ministry’s Ward 209 in Evin prison.According to Majzooban Noor, seven Gonabadi dervishes’s lawyers and Majzooban Noor’s managers (Messrs. Hamid Reza Moradi Sarvestani, Amir Eslami, Mostafa Daneshjou, Farshid Yadollahi, Afshin Karampour, Omid Behroozi and Reza Entesari) […]
Gonabadi Dervishes Continue Their Dry Hunger Strike with Forced Therapeutic serum
After nine days on dry hunger strike, Gonabadi Dervishes, Saleh Moradi and Kasra Nouri are in dire health condition.According to Majzooban Noor, Saleh Moradi and Kasra Nouri who have began “dry” hunger strike (refusing water in addition to food) since Thursday morning 1st day of Farvardin 1392 (March 21, 2013), after being on “wet” […]
Inmates in Ward 350 Asked Dervishes to Break Their Hunger Strike
22 Imprisoned Green Movement supporter held in Section 350 of Evin prison, have issued an open letter urging two jailed Gonabadi Dervishes in Adel Abad Prison to end their protest hunger strike.According to Kaleme website, in a letter signed by jailed Green movement activists, noted that: “You brought oppressed Dervishes’s voice to whole world […]
Investigation of Haleh Sahabi’s Death Closed Without Visual Evidence Review
Two years after the death of Haleh Sahabi at her father’s funeral, a Tehran Court has declared she died of “natural causes” and closed the investigation. In an interview with Rooz Online, Sahabi’s husband stated that the court refused to review films and photographs pertaining to the incident despite the court testimonies of four […]