Gonabadi dervish, Mr.Ehsanollah Amanian was summoned for flogging sentence by execution of sentences office in Gonabad on Saturday 15 Mehr 1391( Oct 07 2012).

According to Majzooban reporter, he was summoned by first enforcement Branch of Gonabad Court for his sentences of 50 lashes, five months imprisonment and one year exile to deprived areas.

This Gonabadi dervish was sent to the Prison in order to serve out five months jail-term after receiving 50 lashes.

It is important to say that, in Tir 1388, a group of Gonabadi dervishes had protested against the illegal behavior of Gonabad’s prosecuting attorney by just gathering in front of the justice administration and Gonabad Prison then 24 of them had been arrested and sentenced. Fourteen men of these dervishes had been sentenced to 25 lashes and 91 days of suspended imprisonment for three years and the others 10 dervishes to 5 months imprisonment, 50 lashes and one year exile to deprived areas.

The appeals Court Branch 12 of Khorasan Razavi province had upheld their sentences.

It should be noted that, on 24 April, the Intelligence Agency officers simultaneously arrested Gonabadi dervishes, Messrs.Nazar Ali Marvi, Mohammad Marvi, and Ali Kashanifar in Gonabad city, ZafarAli Moghimi in Qouchan city and Abdorreza Kashani, Alireza Abbasi, and Shokrollah Hosseini in Beidokht city and transferred them to Vakil Abad prison in Mashad.

Mohammad Kashani also was arrested in his office on 20 May and joined the other prisoners.