According to Majzooban Noor Website reporter, today Dr. Abbas Shareeyati one of Yazd city’s Gonabadi Dervishes, was arrested by the plain-clothes and security forces and transferred to an unknown place.

This report states that this arrest, same as other seizures, has happen without any judicial and legal warrant.

Keeping pressure on Gonabadi Dervishes which started in Shahrivar, 1390 (September, 2011) is intensely increasing by assault and battery and arrest of over than 100 Dervishes in Kavar, Sarvestan, and Shiraz, and also by raid on Majzooban Noor Website’s managers and staffs in Tehran.

It is remarkable that these actions and pressures on Gonabadi Dervishes have been faced by the strong reactions and convictions of international societies and human rights councils.