Branch 15 of Tehran Revolutionary Court issued verdicts against 7 Gonabadi Dervish lawyers and managers of Majzooban Noor website (Nematollahi Gonabadi News Website which focuses on disseminating news about Dervishes). They have been collectively sentenced to 56 years in prison.According to Majzooban Noor, seven Gonabadi Dervish lawyers and managers of Majzooban Noor website who […]
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Sattar Beheshti’s Aggressor Could Still Be Prosecuted
The Head of the Iranian Medical Examiner’s Office said on Tuesday, July 9, that according to his organization’s final report, the blows dealt to blogger Sattar Beheshti during his interrogation were not fatal and could not have caused his death, Mehr News Agency reported. Dr. Ahmad Shojaee also told Mehr that in the Medical […]
Journalist’s Family Puzzled by Her Arrest: She Did Nothing Wrong
Security forces arrested journalist Fariba Pajouh on July 10 in Tehran, though a family member of hers told the Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that the reasons for her arrest are unclear. “When the forces took her, they didn’t say anything. During her telephone calls to her family, she said that she does […]
Sattar Beheshti’s Mother: “Exhume my Son’s Body And Perform Autopsy Under UN Supervision”
In an interview with Saham news, Satar Beheshti’s mother, reacted to the Coroner’s report that classified the death of her son as “death due to psychological pressure and not due to blows inflicted by the interrogators”, asked for her son’s body to be exhumed. Satar Beheshti’s mother asked the Court and high ranking Judiciary […]
Emergency transfer to hospital of imprisoned Dervish Lawyer Mostafa Daneshjou
Imprisoned Gonabadi Dervish Lawyer, Mostafa Daneshjou was taken to hospital on an emergency basis due to respiratory illness.According to Majzooban Noor, Dervish lawyer, Mostafa Daneshjou on Saturday morning (Tir 15/July 6), because of trouble breathing due to his respiratory disease on an emergency basis was sent to “Shohada e Tajrish” hospital.Several times over the […]
AliReza Roshan Won the Poetry Prize of “André Verdet”
Imprisoned Gonabadi Dervish, AliReza Roshan won the Poetry Prize of “André Verdet: the poetry of French resistance”.AliReza Roshan, Gonabadi dervish, activist for the rights of Dervishes, poet, writer and head of the book section of Shargh Newspaper, is a poet who has published a collection of poems called “There is no book/ The book […]
Iran’s Oldest Protestant Church Shut Down by Intelligence Ministry, Pastor Transferred to Evin Prison
On Sunday, May 26, a Tehran church of the Assemblies of God, one of the main Protestant churches in Iran, was abruptly shut down for “major repairs.” According to Christian activist Mansour Borji, church members faced closed doors and a repair sign when they appeared for the Sunday service. He said that after months of […]
Prisoners recalled in advance of election
Iranian judiciary is recalling political prisoners on furlough back to person in the lead up to the presidential elections on June 14. Massoud Bastani and Hossein Ronaghi were called back to Evin Prison on Saturday according to Kaleme opposition website. Hossein Ronaghi was given leave for health complications involving his kidney and bladder. Ronaghi, […]
Four Gonabadi Dervishes Arrested
Four Gonabadi Dervishes were arrested by security forces on the Isfahan-Shahrekord road.
Gonabadi Dervishes Were Accused Of Being Anti-Security
In the indictment which is drafted by Iran’s Ministry of Information in the case of Gonabadi dervishes’s lawyers and Majzooban Noor website’s managers, “The Friary” and “Nematollahi Gonabadi Order” is mentioned as “Anti-security cult and deviant group”!