Tag: attacked

Protesting Dervish Women Attacked, Beaten & Many Arrested And Taken To Evin Prison for 1 day

  During today’s Gonabadi Dervishes protest, the protesting women were attacked and beaten with batons by security forces, resulting in a number of injuries. The injured women were arrested among the other protesters arrested today and were taken to Evin prison. Gonabadi Dervishes news site, Majzooban Noor reports 250 people were arrested during the last […]

Pro-dervish protesters attacked by security forces

  On the second day of a gathering in support of Gonabadi dervishes in front of the Tehran Prosecutor’s office, security forces had a violent confrontation with protesters. Majzooban-e Noor reports that since none of protesters’ request had been addressed on the first day — namely, the return of exiled prisoners from Rejaishahr Prison and […]

Iranian activist Mohammad Nurizad attacked and arrested, but not silenced

  Journalists and film-maker beaten then detained by security forces as he protested outside intelligence ministry in Tehran Members of Iran’s intelligence services have beaten up and temporarily detained a prominent journalist and film-maker critical of the authorities’ treatment of the opposition. Mohammad Nurizad, 61, was protesting in front of the Iranian intelligence ministry in […]