Yesterday three Gonabadi dervishes, Ebrahim Fazli, Mohammad Ali Sadi and Asghar Karimi, have been released from Adel Abad prison in Shiraz after a month of imprisonment.
According to Majzooban Noor last month, these three dervishes, residents of Sarvestan have been arrested when they returned to Sarvestan’s Court. Yesterday, 3rd of April, based on the head of judiciary’s instructions that all prisoners with sentences less than a year to be released, these three prisoners have been released.Mr Fazli, Mr Sadi and Mr Karimi were arrested during the riots that was instigated against dervishes by four clergies along with a number of radicals in Kavar. Although they were shot during the riot and having a case against their assailants, they were arrested and sentenced to imprisonment.
It is necessary to recall that after Kavar’s riot, quite a number of Gonabadi dervishes across the country, a number of their lawyers and their representatives were convicted to heavy sentences, long exiles and social exclusions.