An open letter by the “International Organisation To Preserve Human Rights in Iran” addressed to Hojatoleslam Ali Younesi, the adviser of President Hassan Rouhani on political and security affairs in matters relating to ethnic and religious in Iran. Dear Hojatoleslam Ali Younesi, As you are aware, it has been a while since the repression […]
Tag: Gonabadi dervishes
Rasool Hoveyda’s letter to Doctors without Borders
Rasoul Hoveida, the non-political prisoner who had been released after joining the Sufi prisoners’ hunger strike, wrote a letter to Doctors without Borders warning against the Dervishes’ health conditions and a letter to the Dervishes themselves asking them to stop the hunger strike.As reported by Majzooban Noor, in his letter to the nine Sufi […]
Mostafa Daneshjoo’s letter to his daughter, Fatemeh, who commences elementary school this year.
“Your father’s goal is to prevent the innocent from being imprisoned.” Mostafa Daneshjoo wrote a letter to his daughter who has been deprived of his loving company over the previous 4 years. The letter is as follows: In the Name of GodFatemeh, my dear daughterIn our visits, I would witness you crying and asking me […]
The Families of Jailed Dervishes Visit Wounded in the Attack by Security Forces on Gonabadi Dervishes
Following the bloody attack by security forces on Gonabadi Dervishes in the last days of Shahrivar/September who were planning to gather with closed eyes and hands in front of the prosecutor’s office, the families of nine jailed Dervishes have paid visit to the casualties of this attack and comforted them.According to Majzooban Noor, hundreds […]
” Lift the hunger strike, swear on our ulcer ” A letter by the members of the campaign of “migration of Dervishes” to the nine jailed Dervishes
The members of campaign of migration of Dervishes by releasing a letter to the nine imprisoned Dervishes in Evin and Nezam prisons, asked them to end their hunger strike.The members of this campaign who were brutally beaten by the security and plainclothes forces due to their protest against inflicted oppressions on Dervishes, by releasing […]
“Show us a right way of protest that we have not gone”.Dervishes in a visit to the office of Ejei.
On Wednesday, 2th of Mehr 1393 ( September 24, 2014) in the morning, the families of the Gonabadi jailed Dervishes along with some other Dervishes by referring to the office of the first deputy and judiciary spokesman, Mr. Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei asked to visit him.According to Majzooban Noor, because Mr. Ejei, the first Deputy […]
Amnesty International: Hunger striking Dervishes critically ill
UA: 242/14 Index: MDE 13/051/2014 Iran Date: 25 September 2014 URGENT ACTION HUNGER-STRIKING DERVISHES CRITICALLY ILL Nine jailed members of Iran’s Gonabadi dervish religious minority began a hunger strike on 31 August, in protest at the authorities’ harassment and persecution of Gonabadi dervishes across the country and are now critically ill. They are prisoners […]
Gonabadi Dervishes Urge Jailed Dervishes to End Hunger Strike Through Widespread Requests on Social Networks
After the news about critical and dire condition of nine jailed Dervishes who are still on hunger strike was published, over the past 2 days, a wave of request messages from Gonabadi Dervishes across the country calling on jailed Dervishes to end hunger strike was released in the social networking sites.According to Majzooban Noor, […]
What happened yesterday in Evin meeting room? The imprisoned Dervishes did not come to the meeting room: Visit the injured Dervishes, They are our family
Accompanied by 50 Gonabadi Dervishes, the imprisoned Dervishes’ families came to the meeting room in Evin Prison to visit their loved ones yesterday morning on 1 Mehr 1393 (September 23, 2014). In his meeting with the 8 imprisoned Sufis, the head of Evin Prison rejected the Deputy Prosecutor General’s claim of not being aware […]
The deputy of prosecutor, “Did the Dervishes have any gathering”!in the first attempt to follow up the condition of the jailed Dervishes by their families after a two- day tension.
While one night still has not passed after the bloody attack on the two-day gathering of Dervishes in front of the place of the prosecution, the deputy prosecutor in response to those Dervishes’ families calling for a meeting with their prisoners, mentioned that “if the Dervishes had any gathering”?!According to Majzooban Noor, Mr. Khodabakhshi […]