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 […]
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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 […]
NCRI: Imprisoned Dervishes on hunger strike demand justice
In a statement entitled ‘The Will’, Gonabadi Dervishes imprisoned in Iran who continue their hunger strike that began on August 31, call on freedom-loving people to bring to justice the Iranian regime’s authorities involved in torturing prisoners. Some member of the group of nine striking Gonabadi Dervishes being held in Tehran’s Evin Prison and […]
Fears for jailed journalists on hunger strike in Iranian jails
A press freedom organisation has registered its concern about the well-being of a group of hunger-striking journalists in two Iranian jails. Five contributors to the Sufi news website Majzooban Noor – Reza Entesari, Hamidreza Moradi, Mostafa Abdi, Kasra Nouri and Afshin Karampour – began refusing food on 31 August in protest at their prison conditions. […]
Private homes hold more gold than Central Bank
The lack of a clear outlook on the Iranian economy has led Iranians to store large quantities of gold in their home, and recent reports indicate that the amount of gold stored in homes now exceeds the amount in the Central Bank. The Shahrvand Daily reports that according to Gold and Jewelry Producers and […]
“Happy” Youths Go on Trial in Tehran
Charged with Producing “Vulgar Video Clip” and Having “Illicit Relations” The Iranian youths who produced the dance video “Happy in Tehran” set to the Pharrell Williams hit song “Happy” were put on trial in Tehran on September 9, 2014, where they were charged with “participation in producing a vulgar video clip” and conducting “illicit […]
More Than Two Months in Solitary Confinement for Protesting Exclusion of Women in Stadium
A young woman’s detention in solitary confinement continues after her June 30, 2014 arrest, following her earlier arrest and release outside a Tehran sports stadium when she tried to attend a volleyball game. Ghoncheh Ghavami’s lawyer, Mahmoud Alizadeh Tabatabaee, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that he is unaware of his […]
Reporters Without Borders: Lives of detained Sufi journalists in the balance
They began a hunger strike on 31 August in protest against prison conditionsReporters Without Borders is very worried about the many journalists and netizens who continue to be detained despite suffering serious ailments, and condemns the lack of adequate medical treatment in the prisons where they are held. There is currently a […]