Gonabadi Dervish and one of the collaborators of Majzooban Noor website, Abdolghafour Ghalandari Nejad, refused to attend his trial which was supposed to take place this morning-26 Bahman in Branch 2 of the Revolutionary Court in the city of Bandar Abbas.
According to a report by Majzooban Noor, a trial date had been set down for 26 Bahman 1392 ( Feb 15, 2014) by Branch 2 of the Revolutionary Court to address the accusations against Abdolghafour Ghalandari Neja but he refused to appear before the court in order to protest the hearing process and also, because he never received a court summons in writing.
Abdolghafour Ghalandari Nejad was arraigned on an indictment charging him with “propaganda against the Islamic Republic” and “being a member of opposition group”.
t should be mentioned that, so far, he has been arrested twice. Once, he had been arrested on 16 Mordad 1391 (Aug 6 , 2012). He was then taken to the Tehran’s Central Detention of the Ministry of Information by air plane, where he was released after 6 days of interrogation and imprisonment, with a warning of not to continue cooperation with Majzooban Noor website any more.
He was again arrested at his own home in the city of Bandar Abbas on Saturday, 31 Farvardin 1392 ( April 20, 2013). After his detention, the Gonabadi Dervishes residing in the city of Bandar Abbas, assembled in front of Hormozgan Province’s Intelligence office for being informed of the situation of this Dervish which resulted in his early release from prison.
It should be noted that, since Shahrivar 1390 (Sep 2011) security forces have clashed violently with Gonabadi Dervishes and their news website as “Majzooban Noor”, so that in the past two years, all collaborators with the Majzooban Noor website have been subjected to persecution and more than 20 of its managers, lawyers, staff and contributors have been arrested and ten of them are currently serving their harsh prison sentences.