Four Gonabadi Dervishes were arrested by security forces on the Isfahan-Shahrekord road.

These arrests of Gonabadi dervishes, Arash Shaltouki, Mehrdad Shirazi, Morteza Sohrabi and Hamid Akbari residents of Karaj, who were traveling to Shahrekord, took place on the Isfahan-Shahrekord road.

After stopping the dervishes’s car, security forces that had laid in wait for them on their way to Shahrekord, conducted a search with abusive and intimidating behavior.

Then the detained dervishes were taken to Isfaham, after several hours of interrogation three of them (Mehrdad Shirazi, Morteza Sohrabi and Hamid Akbari) were released but Arash Shaltouki has been transferred to the Ministry of Intelligence’s detention in Evin prison by security forces.

Also, by a coordinated and planned action, security forces entered the house of Mr. Shaltouki in Karaj without a warrant and by threatening his family confiscated his personal items such as religious books , videos and cassette tapes, CDs and his personal computer and did not make a detailed inventory of the property they have seized.