A group of Gonabadi Dervishes, resident in Australia, has issued an open letter requesting Saleh Moradi and Kasra Nouri, to persuade them to protect their health and also to end their hunger strike.
A number of Gonabadi Dervishes living in Australia, by sending a letter to Majzooban Noor website( Nematollahi Gonabadi Order News Site) which in recognizes the dervishes’ sacrifices and commends their persistence and considering that is necessary to save lives , urge the two dervishes to end their strike.
Jailed Gonabadi Dervishes, Saleh Moradi and Kasra Nouri have gone on hunger strike since 80 days ago to protest the illegal and inhumane conditions of imprisonment of seven Gonabadi dervishes’s lawyers and Majzooban Noor website managers in solitary confinement of Evin prison in the past 80 days and lack of care for their critical health conditions. Hunger strikers required prison officials to transfer back their lawyers to the general ward of Evin Prison but unfortunately their simple demand has not been met yet .
It is notable that, Saleh Moradi and Kasra Nouri after 64 days of hunger strike on liquid diet, have started a dry hunger strike since Thursday Farvardin, 1, 1392( March 21). Now, Dervishes take regularly injections serum under order from the prison officials, but according to their families, in the first week of their dry hunger strike they were on the verge of death.
The following is the text of the letter sent by the Gonabadi Dervishes from Australia to Dervish hunger strikers:
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Dear brothers, Messrs. Saleh Moradi and Kasra Nouri
We would appreciate your protest against illegal tranfer of Gonabadi Dervishes’s lawyers to solitary confinement. As we also defend your right to protest which is a sign of your love and the deep devotion to all that were oppressed of the injustice in society, especially those of your coterie and jailed peers.
Because, in today’s world that most people are selfish and just think about themselves, your sacrificial protest movement has been the symbols of defending the rights of the nationally oppressed, love for humanity and resistance and standing firm for truth and righteousness which
indicative of your noble character and path that would train humans. You, once again, have conveyed the voices of the dervishes and other prisoners of conscience against oppression to all the people around the world.
But for now, you must stay healthy and safe to continue the resistance against oppression and injustice as in Islam it is necessary to protect body and to save life. Therefore, we as your brothers in faith urge you to end your hunger strike.
Gonabadi Dervishes resident in Australia