After Gonabadi Dervish lawyers and managers of Majzooban Noor website were notified by Branch 15 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court, presided over by Judge Salavati, in imposing sentences to a long term of 56 years imprisonment, they stated not to want to appeal against their sentences.
According to Majzooban Noor, these seven imprisoned Dervishes told their lawyers and families: ” These are absolutely unjust convictions based on an unjust process, but the objection to this ruling would be useless and we will not plan to appeal. The most important is the legal competency of investigating authority that is most important to form the court of law in order to put a defendant on just trial and it is also obvious that in such a case to be investigated the Righteous of court and the judge must be accepted by law, then it is in such a court that , mental and legal security of defendant is provided. Otherwise without these conditions any trial would be meaningless.”
According to the reports, seven Gonabadi Dervish lawyers and managers of Majzooban Noor website who have been arrested since Shahrivar 1390 (September 2011), after spending almost two years in prison without trial, have received a range of sentences between 10.5 and 7.5 years. Judge Abulghasem Salavati has issued these very heavy sentences in the cases of Gonabadi Dervishes.
These sentences has been issued against these prisoners of conscience by Revolutionary Court while they have abstained to take part in the courts and defend themselves in protest of the court’s lack of qualification and the illegal process and even they refused to provide any defense bill.
According to the court’s verdicts, Hamid Reza Moradi Sarvestani (Majzooban Noor website manager and human-Dervish rights activist) was sentenced to 10 years and six months imprisonment, Reza Entesari ( photo journalist, webmaster and human-Dervish rights activist) to 8 years and six months imprisonment, Mostafa Daneshjou, Farshid Yadollahi, Amir Eslami, Omid Behroozi ( Lawyer, webmaster and human-Dervish rights activist) and Afshin Karampour (Juristic, webmaster and human-Dervish rights activist) were sentenced to seven and a half years in prison.
In addition to sentencing them to prison, Judge Salavati has also banned them from membership in activist groups and from any form of media and cyberspace activity for five years after release.
The Dervishes have been found guilty of “establishing the illegal organization Majzooban Noor in an attempt to disturb national security”, “propaganda against the regime”, “insulting the leadership” and “disturbing the public order”.