Lashing Sentence Carried Out on 14 Dervishes

The lashing sentence of 14 Gonabadi dervishes who were detained while protesting the unlawful treatment of dervishes has been carried out.

Saeid Kashani, Amir Roshan Mojaver Soufi, Ali Mohammad Amanian, Rouhollah Safari, Ali abbasi Beidokhti, Ebrahim Abbaszadeh, Mohammad Ali Jafari, Hossein Mahdavi, Hossein Abbaszadeh Beidokhti, Rahmat Hosseini, Reza Kakhaki, Behrouz Mojaver Soufi, Ali Mir, Hassan Belouchi-Beidokhti are the 14 dervishes who had been sentenced to lashes for disturbing public order.

They had been sentenced to 25 lashes and 91 days of suspended imprisonment for disturbing public order by gathering in front of the court and the Gonabad Prison. The appeals court had upheld their sentence.

Source: Human Rights House of IRAN