HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS OF GONABADI DERVISHES IN IRAN JANUARY 2011 – 2014 Dervishes in Iran continue to face a range of human rights violations, including intimidation, harassment, attacks on their prayer centres, destruction of community cemeteries, arrest and torture. The Nematollahi Gonabadis consider themselves followers of Twelver Shia Islam, the official state religion in Iran. […]
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Regime in Iran creates law against mystic groups
A new law has been enacted by the Parliament in Teheran, which needs to be discussed on terms of the degree of penalty. The general points of the project to confront” the deviated groups” was deliberated and confirmed in the assembly of the Cultural Commission belonging to the Majles in Iran. in May 2014. According […]
Monthly Report – A Review of the Human Rights Situation in Iran, September/October
The following is a monthly report summarizing the human rights status in Iran in September/October (Solar calendar, month of Mehr), 2014. This report has been prepared by the office of Statistics and Publications of the Human Rights Activists Association of Iran. Considering the ongoing suppression and ban on independent human rights activist organizations […]
Forward to the Epistle of Zulfaqar (About Forbiddance of Opium Smoking)
Forward to the Epistle of Zulfaqar(About Forbiddance of Opium Smoking)Written by Haj Mulla Ali Nour Ali Shah Gonabadi IntroductionIn Irfan-e-Iran; a journal on mysticism, Vol. 8 (spring 2001), a book named Zulfaqar (About Forbiddance of Opium Smoking) written by His Holiness Haj Mullah Ali Nour Ali Shah Gonabadi was introduced. The book was recently (winter […]
October 2014 report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran (mentioning Gonabadi Dervishes)
The report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ahmed Shaheed. Submitted in accordance with Human Rights Council resolution 25/24 to the 69th session of the UN General Assembly in October 2014. The Special Rapporteur submits the present report pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution. He […]
Protests in London & Stocklhom Against The Iranian Government’s Treatment of Sufis
This afternoon the members of The International Organisation to Preserve Human Rights In Iran (IOPHRI) gathered at Trafalgar Square, London, and Stockholm to protest the Iranian governments treatment of Sufis, and demanded the freedom of the imprisoned Sufis. This is protest was in support of Sufis who had been imprisoned by the authorities as part […]
Majzooban Noor Website’s Congratulations on the Occasion of Eid Qadir
Majzooban Noor Website, would congratulate this sacred and auspicious day to His Holiness, Haj Dr. Noor Ali Tabandeh, “Majzoob Ali Shah”, the Great Qutb of the Nematollahi Gonabadi Sufi Order, and also to all Gonabadi dervishes and Muslims worldwide. Here in the following you will observe the full message; HOU121 Qadir, is neither an […]
Imposing Travel Ban on Dervishes in Baidokht, Inhibition of the Second Convoy of Dervishes to Tehran
With continuing the prohibition of travel for women from Baidokht to Tehran, in another series of these violations two days ago, a group of women dervishes who were heading to Tehran were prevented and told that, dervishes would not be allowed to leave the city of Baidokht.According to Majzooban Noor, a few hours before […]
President Hassan Rouhani denies the imprisonment of journalists in Iran
This week has been eventful in Iran. With all that has been going on in the tormented realms of written and spoken word, came further indication that the diminishing right to free expression will not be seeing better days. In an interview with CNN’s Christian Amanpour, President Hassan Rouhani gave a short and bizarre […]
A letter by a number of Gonabadi Dervishes in Australia to the UN and other human rights organizations
We, Gonabadi Dervishes, are proud of following a Sufi order which has made us unable to disturb and suppress others and opened our eyes to the reality that all creatures are manifestations of divinity. Therefore, we are at peace with all of them and love them as they are all created by beloved God. […]