The First Branch of General Court in Kavar sentenced 35 Gonabadi Dervishes residents of Kavar county in Fars Province to a total of 85 years of discretionary imprisonment and paying blood money.
As reported by Majzooban Noor, 113 people consisting of Basij personnel and clergymen had filed lawsuits against the Dervishes accusing them of “involvement in a skirmish and causing physical harm” and “violation of public order”.
According to this report, each of the first 5 defendants were sentenced to 4 years of imprisonment (first to fifth) and paying blood money while the sixth to the twelfth defendants, the thirteenth to the thirty-third, and The thirty-fourth and fifth defendants were sentenced to 3, 2, and 1 year of imprisonment, respectively, as well as paying blood money.
This sentence was pronounced in the presence of the first 15 defendants but the rest were sentenced in absentia. It is worth noting that the first 3 defendants had previously been sentenced to permanent exile by the Revolution Court of Shiraz.
These decrees have to do with the skirmishes which took place in Shahrivar in 1390 (September, 2011) in Kavar. Subsequent to this event, a number of seminarians, Basij members, and self-willed forces, persuaded by 4 clerics, named Alireza Shahbazi, Mohammad Reza Ghanbari, Ali Akbar-Abadi, and Ali Gha’emi, staged a rally which involved offensive remarks and accusations against Gonabadi Dervishes which led to martyrdom of a Gonabadi Dervish, named Vahid Banani.
The names of the Dervish defendants and the length of their imprisonment are as follows:
1-Hamid-Reza Arayesh; 4 years in prison
2-Mohammad-Ali Shamshirzan; 4 years in prison
3-Kazem Dehghan; 4 years in prison
4-Sayed Ebrahim Bahrami; 4 years in prison
5-Mohammad-Ali Dehghan; 4 years in prison
6-Omid-Ali Akbari; 3 years in prison
7-Mehrdad Keshavarz; 3 years in prison
8-Mohammad-Ali Sadeghi; 3 years in prison
9-Amir-Hamzeh Dehghan; 3 years in prison
10-Manouchehr Zare; 3 years in prison
11-Abouzar Malekpour; 3 years in prison
12-Behyar Rajabi; 3 years in prison
13-Reza Pishkar; 2 years in prison
14-Mehdi Ghanbari; 2 years in prison
15-Ali Dehghan; 2 years in prison
16-Issa Dehghan; 2 years in prison
17-Mehdi Dehghan; 2 years in prison
18-Mehdi Marand; 2 years in prison
19-Ghasem Daghtan; 2 years in prison
20-Shahram Dehghan; 2 years in prison
21-Nasrollah Golshan; 2 years in prison
22-Khorshid Dashtaki; 2 years in prison
23-Zabihollah Gerdpour; 2 years in prison
24-Hamid Mehdizadeh; 2 years in prison
25-Ahmad-Reza Kouhi; 2 years in prison
26-Mohammad-Reza Zahediankish; 2 years in prison
27-Ali Ajdari; 2 years in prison
28-Sohrab Dehghan; 2 years in prison
29-Esmaeil Dehghan; 2 years in prison
30-Amanollah Cheraghi; 2 years in prison
31-Mohammad Arayesh; 2 years in prison
32-Abdol-Reza Arayesh; 2 years in prison
33-Karamat Moradi; 2 years in prison
34-Mohsen Esmaeili; 1 year in prison
35-Gholam-Ali Beirami; 3 months and 1 day in prison