Tag: Iran: January 2011 – January 2014

Human rights violations of Gonabadi dervishes in Iran: January 2011 – January 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. They have been sentenced to long prison terms. Lawyers who defended the Sufis were removed from the judiciary or imprisoned themselves. Journalists who wrote about their complaints […]