Intelligence agents of Khuzestan province, consecutively; summoned the holder of religious ceremonies of Gonabadi dervishes in the city of Jarahi and interrogated.A report by Majzooban Noor goes on that Mr. Abdullahi, the holder of religious ceremonies of city Jarahi, here today morning at 10 am was summoned by the information and security agents of […]
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Rohani says religious oversight not the job of police
Iranian President Hassan Rohani told a meeting of security force commanders on Saturday that the police must enforce the law and not Islam.“The police are not responsible for executing Islam, they are charged with the execution of the law, and any other expectation would create confusion and cause problems for the people.” In a […]
Intelligence Minister stands up for privacy
Iranian Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi says people are entitled to feel assured that their privacy is not being invaded. ISNA reports that at a meeting to introduce the head of the Hormozgan intelligence department, Alavi said: “The people must feel there is no invasion of their privacy and that their life and property is […]
Security Forces and Police Vehicles Increase Monitoring in Tehran
One day after the names of Iranian presidential candidates were announced by the Guardian Council, there was a tense security atmosphere in several areas of Tehran on May 22, following news of the disqualification of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei as candidates, several eyewitnesses told the International Campaign for Human Rights in […]
Security forces in place for announcement of candidates
An Iranian opposition website reports that Tehran “has put on a military face” as the Guardian Council is set to announce today the presidential candidates that have been approved to run in the election. The Kaleme website writes that the possible disqualification of Esfandiar Rahim Mashai, the preferred candidate of the Mahmoud Ahmadinejad camp, […]
Karroubi’s Letter to Mr. Khamenei Denounces Security Forces
Mohammad Hossein Karroubi, the son of political dissident under house arrest since February 2011 Mehdi Karroubi, has written a letter to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei decrying the continued confiscation of personal items security forces took in February 2013. “On February 11, 2013, security forces accompanying a representative from the Prosecutor’s Office, who had […]
Transfer of 4 Gonabadi Dervishes to Kavar Justice Department under Extreme Security Measures
4 Gonabadi Dervishes who had been arrested by security forces over the last weeks, were taken to Kavar Justice Department under extreme security measures.According to Majzooban Noor, four Gonabadi Dervishes, residents of Kavar county who were recently arrested by security forces and plain-clothes in their homes and work place and are being held in […]
Refugee Iranian Photojournalist In Turkish Security Prison
The Turkish authorities arrested Hossein Salmanzadeh, an Iranian photojournalist and a refugee in Turkey, on April 26 and have detained him inside the Ankara Security Police Detention Center, Javad Moghimi Parsa told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. According to Javad Moghimi, Salmanzadeh’s close friend and former colleague, Salmanzadeh embarked on a […]
Security and Intelligence Forces’s Outrageous Demand From Family Members of Dervishes
The Families of imprisoned Dervishes announced that, the Ministry of Information has asked them to declare: “All detained dervishes in Tehran’s Evin and Shiraz’s Adel Abad prison are not Dervishes (!) and not related to Nematollahi Gonabadi order and would act independently!”According to Majzooban Noor, in an interview with “Raha News”, the wife of […]
Iranian security forces disrupt dervish protest
Gonabadi dervishes gathered in front of Evin Prison today in support of jailed dervishes and their lawyers.