According to Majzooban Noor, the families of jailed Gonabadi Dervishes have been arrested too. Also, During today’s Gonabadi Dervishes protest, the protesting women were attacked and severely beaten with batons by security forces. These women who were with their children, had planned to go in front of the Tehran Prosecutor’s office in helping Dervishes […]
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Head of Iran’s Prisons Organization Threatened Kasra Nouri to Change His Place of Detention
Head of Iran’s prisons organization threatened Kasra Nouri, imprisoned Dervish rights activist in Shiraz’s Nezam prison to change his place of detention if he continues his hunger strike.According to Majzooban Noor, Kasra Nouri who is now on 18th day of a mass indefinite hunger strike which has started along with eight imprisoned Dervishes in […]
In address to the supreme leader; Ayatollah Ali Khamenei “The only open door to us is the door of prison”
The Signers of Campaign “Dervishes migration from Iran to Evin” in an address to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader,called for an investigation into the violation of the rights of Dervishes by security and judicial entitiesand cited that if our demands based on Sharia and law are not met; we would prefer jail to […]
Families of Jailed Gonabadi Dervishes;”To Go to the Prosecutor to See their Dears for the Last Time”
The families of nine imprisoned Dervishes, who by releasing their wills have gone on hunger strike in prisons of Tehran and Shiraz, are extremely concerned as to the consequences of the hunger strike.According to majzooban Noor, the families of jailed Dervishes who had been waiting for hours in the visiting room, again were deprived […]
Radio Zamaneh: Health plummets for jailed dervishes on hunger strike
Two of the jailed Iranian dervishes on hunger strike are reportedly in a state of critical health. The Majzooban-e Noor website reports that Kasra Nouri. on the fourteenth day of his hunger strike in Shiraz Nezam Prison, is now experiencing “impaired speech and physical weakness.” The report indicates that this is the third time […]
Security Guards Raided Evin’s Ward 4 and Destroyed Personal Items of Hamid-Reza Moradi
Yesterday morning, Tuesday 25th of Shahrivar 1393 (16 September 2014) Evin Prison’s Special Guards raided the ward 4 where the 52-year-old Gonabadi Dervish, Hamid-Reza Moradi is being held and under the pretext of inspection destroyed many of his personal items.One of their cellmates told the Majzooban Noor that, due to his hunger strike, he has […]
Kasra Nouri in the Fourteenth Day of Hunger Strike Suffering from a Speech Disorder
Kasra Nouri, Gonabadi Dervish and one of the collaborators of Majzooban Noor website who is being held in Shiraz’s Nezam prison, in the fourteenth day of Dervishes mass hunger strike was suffering from a speech disorder and physical weakness. It is for the third time in the last year that he has started a […]
LETTER TO THE UN; IMPRISONED SUFIS ON THE VERGE OF DEATH!
Tuesday, Sep 16 2014From: Nematollahi Gonabadi SufisTo: The United Nations and other human rights organizations Human beings are members of a whole, In creation of one essence and soulIf one member is afflicted with pain, Other members uneasy will remain Dear brothers of human society;This letter was written on behalf of the […]
NCRI: Imprisoned Dervishes on hunger strike demand justice
In a statement entitled ‘The Will’, Gonabadi Dervishes imprisoned in Iran who continue their hunger strike that began on August 31, call on freedom-loving people to bring to justice the Iranian regime’s authorities involved in torturing prisoners. Some member of the group of nine striking Gonabadi Dervishes being held in Tehran’s Evin Prison and […]
Fears for jailed journalists on hunger strike in Iranian jails
A press freedom organisation has registered its concern about the well-being of a group of hunger-striking journalists in two Iranian jails. Five contributors to the Sufi news website Majzooban Noor – Reza Entesari, Hamidreza Moradi, Mostafa Abdi, Kasra Nouri and Afshin Karampour – began refusing food on 31 August in protest at their prison conditions. […]