Journalists’ Rights On September 26, on the sidelines of his UN visit, Rouhani was interviewed by CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, who asked him about the situation of the following prisoners with dual citizenship: the Iranian-British woman Ghoncheh Ghavami, and the Iranian-Americans Jason Rezaian, Amir Hekmati, and Saeed Abedini. Rouhani denied that any journalist is imprisoned […]
Tag: Gonabadi dervishes
With the Purpose of Intimidation and Threats, Stationed Plainclothes Officers to Chase and Monitoring Dervishes
After protest gathering by Gonabadi Dervishes in recent weeks and following the increase of summons of Dervishes to the security police via SMS and phone and illegal security behavior in dealing with them, some full-time officers were appointed to chase some scholars and influential Dervishes and keeping them under surveillance.According to reports by Majzooban […]
Gonabadi Dervishes and Civil Disobedience
In an analytical essay entitled “Gonabadi Dervishes and Civil Disobedience”, Tavana website focuses on the dervishes’ sufferings and consequent protests, drawing upon the ideas of Farhad Nouri, the editor-in-chief of Majzooban Noor website, and Ammar Maleki, a researcher in political sciences. Tavana website introduces itself as an electronic training platform for Iranian civil society […]
German Ministry of Foreign Affairs concerned about the imprisoned Dervishes’ longer than a month hunger strike
Christoph Strässer, High Commissioner for Human Rights in German Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has expressed his and his government’s concerns about the critical conditions of the Nematollahi Gonabadi Dervishes, in general, and the nine imprisoned Dervishes, in particular, who went on hunger strike more than a month ago in protest against oppression and suppression […]
Lawyers of Gonabadi Dervishes were asked to end hunger strikes; The voice of your justice seeking has been heard by Nation
More than hundred political activists along with former political prisoners in a letter to the lawyers of Gonabadi Dervishes accentuated that the voice of their justice seeking has been heard by all people of Iran, and now it is time to break their hunger strike and release their families and people of Iran from […]
Increase of Summons and Interrogations from Dervishes in Various Locations
According to Majzooban Noor, over the past few days, three other Dervishes named Mohammad Karimi, Hamed Karimi and Mehdi Bashkal from the city of Bandar Abbas received an SMS with the content of the summon to the Security Police in the mentioned city. Also, Ghasem Hesabi a Dervish from Rudsar city, Gilan Province, has […]
Al-monitor: Iran dervishes protest prisoner treatment, media blackout
Iran’s Gonabadi dervishes held a protest on Sept. 28 against what they claim is the poor treatment of dervish political prisoners and a “news boycott” by domestic media. According to Mazjooban Noor, a website dedicated to publishing news about the Gonabadi dervishes, at least 1,000 people joined the protest outside of the Ministry of […]
Boycott on news related to Dervishes; the prisoners’ families unhappy with frequent but unfulfilled promises
In an interview with Rooz news agency, Nematollahi Gonabadi Dervishes’ families said that, after the deadline given to officials for fulfilling their demands was over, they staged another “peace rally” in front of Tehran’s Ministry of Justice and, subsequently, visited the representative of the minister.During the rally, of which a number of videos have […]
Dervishes from Beidokht were prevented from travelling to Tehran; Follow up report on the interception of the bus carrying female Dervishes from Beidokht to Tehran
Following the arrest of the bus carrying female Dervishes and inspection and interrogation by the road police, they were halted from continuing their journey and the bus was sent back to their home town, Beidokht.According to Majzooban Noor, the road police, under orders from security police, intercepted the bus carrying female Dervishes on the […]
Interception of the bus carrying female Dervishes from Beidokht to Tehran; “You are not allowed to travel to Tehran for the next five days”.
Yesterday, on September 30, a bus carrying around 40 female Gonabadi Dervishes from Beidokht to Tehran was intercepted, and the passengers were subject to inspection and interrogation. To this point of time, they have not been allowed to continue their journey. According to Majzooban Noor, the bus was stopped at Sabzevar Police Station, and […]