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 […]
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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 […]
Release of Dervishes; Tehran police chief commander promises to follow up to the family of the jailed Dervishes.
Following the movement of a large number of Dervishes from across the country to continue their protest before the Tehran Prosecutor’s office, Sajedinia,Tehran Police Commander, in a meeting with two wives of the imprisoned dervishes, promised as a Tehran Police Commander, to pursue the problems and conditions of Dervishes with the related authorities.According to […]
The rate of violence of the security forces was not convictable/Four injured Dervishes have been transferred to the emergency ward of Sajjad hospital. /Pictures of injured.
Having been transferred to the Sajjad Hospital,the four Dervishes who all were suffering from severe bleeding and had gone to coma, demonstrates only one of the unimaginable acts of violence by the police and plainclothes forces in suppressing the Dervishes.The formation of tunnel of baton and also landing the fatal hits on the head […]
On the second day of gathering, one hundred more to the previous detained dervishes.
Based on the released reports, the number of Dervishes who has been arrested in the bloody attack reached one hundred, today.According to a report by majzooban Noor , last morning Sunday, September 21, 2014, many military and plainclothes security agents surrounded the district of Behesht street and the City Park also. They had earlier […]
Shirin Ebadi’s open letter to Ban Ki-Moon Convince Iranian authorities to be more considerate toward Sufis and other religious communities
Tehran, 20-09-2014, security forces attacked and arrested Gonabadi Sufis who were going to stage a peace rally in front of the Prosecutor General’s Office. On the same day, Shirin Ebadi, the lawyer, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, and the head of Defenders of Human Rights Center, wrote an open letter to Mr. Ban Ki-Moon, the […]
Dervishes Were Beaten, Humiliated and Injured by Security Forces
On Sunday September 21st, at 9.00am Gonabadi Dervishes gathered in front of the Prosecutor General’s office to rally in peace.After the announcement of Dervishes gathering on Sunday morning, the security forces closed the streets and Tehran’s Bazaar Metro’s exits in an effort to stop the crowd. The protestors were stopped from standing or sitting […]
What Happened to the Peaceful Dervish Protesters Gather
Today on Sunday 21 september at 9 a.m, the second day of the rally staged to protest against the unjust conditions of Sufi Dervishes and imprisoned Dervishes turned into conflict and chaos by secourity forces.Iranian security forces have arrested 800 Gonabadi dervishes Saturday morning, September 20 who had planned to gather at 11 […]