The report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ahmed Shaheed. Submitted in accordance with Human Rights Council resolution 25/24 to the 69th session of the UN General Assembly in October 2014.
The Special Rapporteur submits the present report pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution. He also reported about the situation of human rights violantion of Gonabadi Dervishes in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
G. Freedom of religion
3. Sufi or Dervish Muslims
49. At least nine Sufi or Dervish Muslims are currently detained. Restrictions on the right to association and peace ful assembly for Sufis extend beyond purely religious gatherings. For example, the security forces arrested 326 members of the Gonabadi Sufi order who gathered outside a courtroom in Tehran in March 2014. They were reportedly protesting against the inadequ
ate medical attention offered to three imprisoned members of the community, Mostafa Daneshjoo, Hamidreza Moradi and Farshid Karampour, and the punitive transfer of two other Sufis from Evin prison to Rajaee Shahr prison.
(International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, “Protesting Dervishes beaten and detained”, 11 March 2014. Available from www.iranhumanrights.org/2014/03 /dervishes – beaten – detained/)
Peaceful protests in support of imprisoned members of the Gonabadi community were apparently atta cked by the police in May 2014.
50. Incitement against Gonabadi Dervishes reportedly also continues. In June 2014, religious leaders allegedly described members of the Dervish community as infidels and Wahhabists.
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