Yesterday morning, two planclothes without legal warrant and by force detained, interrogated and beat Mr. Reza Ferdous Moghadam, Gonabadi Dervish living in Darreh Shahr County in Ilam Province, for around an hour.According to Majzooban Noor, yesterday morning, on 6th Aban ( October 28, 2014) two undercover agents went to Dervishes’ places of worship in the […]
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Dervishes Were Beaten, Humiliated and Injured by Security Forces
On Sunday September 21st, at 9.00am Gonabadi Dervishes gathered in front of the Prosecutor General’s office to rally in peace.After the announcement of Dervishes gathering on Sunday morning, the security forces closed the streets and Tehran’s Bazaar Metro’s exits in an effort to stop the crowd. The protestors were stopped from standing or sitting […]
CPJ: Seven journalists among those beaten in Iran’s Evin Prison
At least seven journalists were among those attacked when Iranian guards and intelligence officials raided a section of Tehran’s Evin Prison holding political prisoners on Thursday, according to news websites and human rights groups. The unprecedented violent attack left dozens of prisoners injured, some hospitalized, and others transferred to solitary confinement, according to news […]
Many detainees beaten during police search of Evin prison
Reporters Without Borders firmly condemns last Thursday’s grave violations of the rights of political prisoners in Tehran’s Evin prison. Around 100 riot police, accompanied by Revolutionary Guards and Intelligence Ministry officials in civilian dress, began a major inspection of the cells in Section 350, where political prisoners are held, at around 9 a.m. yesterday. […]
Protesting Dervishes Beaten and Detained
Security agents and police verbally and physically assaulted Gonabadi dervishes before arresting them for their protest gathering outside the Judiciary in Tehran, a protesting dervish told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. Sadigheh Khalili, who is having difficulty walking after being kicked many times during the protest, said about 300 male and […]
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 […]
Protesters beaten, arrested at gathering for jailed dervishes
Islamic Republic security forces beat and arrested protesters at a gathering of Gonabadi Dervishes and the families of jailed Dervishes in front of the Tehran Prosecutor’s Office. The Majzooban-e Noor website reports that more than 80 women and at least 200 men were arrested at the event. Gonabadi Dervishes had announced that they planned […]
Gonabadi Dervishes Were Arrested and Beaten by Security Forces
Up to now, more than 500 Gonabadi Dervishes who are on hunger strike have been arrested by special forces units during a peaceful protest today on on Saturday, Esfand, the 17th (February, the 3rd). The Detained Dervishes were transferred to Police stations No.113 in Tehran’s Bazar where they are being interrogated.According to Majzooban Noor […]
Accused of Waging “Soft War,” Christian Pastor Beaten in Iran’s Evin Prison
Christian pastor Saeed Abedini was conducting a routine visit to the non-profit orphanage his family helped to start in Rasht when Iranian security forces arrested him and seized his passport in July 2012. Five months later, Iranian courts convicted him of “undermining national security,” accusing him and other Christian converts of waging a “soft […]
Gonabadi Dervish, Hamid Moradi Was Beaten Severely in Ward 209 of Evin
Gonabadi dervish, Hamid Reza Moradi , who is detained in ward 209 of Evin prison has been severely beaten by security forces.