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Dervish Acquitted, Five Freed in Dezful

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Ali Moazzam Goudarzi, a dervish of Nematollahi Gonabadi, who had been earlier sentenced to two years in prison by the Revolutionary Court, was acquitted after three appeals court.Majzooban Noor added that the aforementioned dervish, in the climax of the arrest of lawyers, human rights activists of dervishes as well as Webmasters of Majzooban, was arrested in 2011, and after spending one month in the solitary confinement was released along with some other detainees temporarily, but; in the following on the charges of gathering and colluding against national security was sentenced to two years in jail and now after three periods retrial ordered by the Supreme Court, has been acquitted by the Appeals Court of Tehran.

According to the report, also the detention of five Gonabadi dervishes who had been arrested by the court of the city of Dezful has been lifted until the time of their next trial, subsequently; these five dervishes have been released.These dervishes have been accused of disturbance, destroying public property, blasphemy, and insulting senior figures, following the objection to the offensive and obscene speeches of some young Mullahs against the followers of Mysticism in the exhibition of Sacred Defense Week.