Imprisoned Gonabadi Dervish, AliReza Roshan won the Poetry Prize of “André Verdet: the poetry of French resistance”.
AliReza Roshan, Gonabadi dervish, activist for the rights of Dervishes, poet, writer and head of the book section of Shargh Newspaper, is a poet who has published a collection of poems called “There is no book/ The book of nothing” and his poetry has been translated into French. AliReza Roshan were arrested by intelligence forces along with 15 other Gonabadi dervish lawyers and Majzooban Noor website’s managers in Shahrivar 1390 (September 7 2011) in Tehran and he was released on bail after enduring more than one month behind bars in solitary confinement in Ward 209 of Evin prison. Currently he is serving his one-year jail term in Evin prison along with 7 Dervish lawyers and Majzooban Noor managers who are being held there without no trial.
It should be noted that, he has been sentenced to one year imprisonment and four years of suspended jail term after being convicted on the basis of Article 610 of the Islamic Penal Code: “Incitement and collusion with intent to disrupt national security” in Branch 26 of Tehran’s Revolutionary Court presided over by Judge “PirAbbasi” on last Tir (July) and Branch 54 of the Tehran Appellate Court upheld the ruling.
It is important to say that, AliReza Roshan is accused of this charge due to his cooperation with the Majzooban Noor website (Nematollahi Gonabadi Order News Website).
He has written five poems from prison:
June 10 2013 Text: Alireza Roshan
(1)
From your eye that you are captive Dervish
A world is imprisoned and you are free
The truth is:
The bird is shot in the sky
The poet is more poet in the cage
(2)
Blood should be in vessels
Not in jars
Not on the pavement
(3)
They frighten the wind with jail,
Me with loneliness
With you
No confinement
Is solitary
(4)
We rhyme
We
Cannot live,
We rhyme
(5)
Prison door
Opened
To welcome another prisoner
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