Four Gonabadi dervishes have been sentenced to imprisonment and flogging by branch one of Sarvestan’s Public Court.

According to Majzooban-e-Noor reporter ten months after the remonstrant gathering of Gonabadi dervishes in front of the governor’s office in Sarvestan, four of them coming by the names Farzad Darvish, Mohammad Ali Saeedi, Mohammad

Jalal Nikbakht, and Hojjatollah Saeedi have been sentenced to 6 months imprisonment and 40 lashes by Mr.Zaree, the second judge, on the charge of unsettling the public’s discipline.

It should be stated that on August 2, 2010, an insulting exhibition was held in Sarvestan against Sufism which was against the law and freedom of belief and thought. The holders of that exhibition were to intrigue dervishes’ feelings. To complain of that, dervishes referred to the police, but did not receive any answer from them. Therefore, dervishes remonstrated in front of the governor’s office in Sarvestan. In the event the security forces in plain clothes started breaking the governor’s office glasses and setting fire on the tents of the exhibition to throw dervishes into a turmoil which finally after indicting 24 dervishes and interrogating them frequently and arresting 5 of them and keeping Mr. Hadi Rahmani, a dervish, in custody for 90 days, the solicitor general of that branch Mr. Asadi, abandoning their legal pursuit. This sentence soon was changed by the order of attorney general for the pressure of security forces, the governor, and the local clergy of the city to indict 4 dervishes on the charge of unsettling the public’s discipline. Finally, the second judge (Zaree) in the branch one of Public Court of Sarvestan sentenced a 6-month-jail and 40 lashes to these four Gonabadi dervishes.It is mentioned that their advocates are Farshid Yadollahi, Davood Montazeri Laree, and Amir Eslami Bouraki.