Branch 2 of Shiraz’s Revolutionary Court convicted four jailed Gonabadi Dervishes from Fars province and sentencing them to seven years each into exile on charges of “enmity with God, and corruption on earth”.
According to a report by Majzooban Noor, the Shiraz Revolutionary Court issued its verdict against four Gonabadi Dervishes named Mohammad-Ali Dehghan Bouraki, Mohsen Esmaeili, Mohammad-Ali Sadeghi and Ebrahim Bahrami who have spent nearly one year in Adel-Abad prison under temporary detention, charged them with “enmity with God and corruption on earth”.
They have been collectively sentenced to 28 years of exile in the cities of Zabol, Dezfoul, Maragheh and Sardasht respectively.
It is notable that these four Dervishes have been also convicted in the first Branch of General Court in Kavar which sentenced 35 Gonabadi Dervishes residents of Kavar county in Fars Province to a total of 85 years of discretionary imprisonment and paying blood money. They were sentenced between 1 and 4 years imprisonment.

Earlier, three Gonabadi Dervishes, Messrs. Hamid-Reza Arayesh, Kazem Dehghan and Mohammad-Ali Shamshirzan, residents of Kavar county in Fars province were also sentenced to deportation forever by Shiraz’s Revolutionary Court on the charge of moharebeh (enmity with God).
It should be mentioned that, in Shahrivar 1390 (September 2011) the cleric (Mohammad-Reza Shahbazi) along with his colleague (Ali-Reza Ghaemi) begun a widespread propaganda against Islamic mysticism by delivering CD which was all insult to the Dervishes, called on citizens to demonstrate against Dervishes. With an illegal movement which was against religious principles, he called for a demonstration without a valid licence from the authorities, the hardliners gathered before the houses of the Dervishes in town of Kavar, near Shiraz in Fars province, insulting them that resulted in a contention in which a Dervish (Vahid Banani) was killed by shot gun and several were wounded. Since then there have been a great amount of arrest and pressure on Gonabadi Dervishes during which 100 have been arrested, tortured and tried on charges of “moharebeh (enmity with God)”, “spreading corruption on the earth”, “membership in illegal group (being Dervish/ friary!).
Dervishes’ civil rights and national security have never been observed and harassments of Gonabadi Dervishes have still continued with unprecedented intensity. Unfortunately despite all complaint of Dervishes there is no arrest and judiciary process on those who caused all these conflicts.