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Tag : Gonabadi Dervish

January 2, 2019

Food With “Rodent Feces” Served to Political Prisoners in Iran’s Great Tehran Penitentiary

The food served at the Great Tehran Penitentiary (GTP) is unsanitary and has been found to contain rodent feces, ...

September 5, 2018

Detained Sufis Kept in Solitary and Dangerous Wards for Refusing to “Express Remorse” for Peaceful Prison Protests

A number of detained Sufi dervishes of the Gonabadi Order have been kept in solitary confinement or transferred to a ward with dangerous ...

August 20, 2018

Mass Conviction of Sufi Protesters “Unprecedented in Iran’s Judicial History”

Twenty Sufi Muslims, all members of Iran’s Gonabadi Order, have been issued heavy prison sentences by the ...

March 5, 2018

Tehran Police Chief Says Man Accused of Killing Policemen Will Be “Punished by Hanging”

The alleged driver of a bus that was driven into three policemen and two members of the Basij volunteer ...

February 10, 2018

Follower of Sufi Order Expelled From Iranian University After Refusing to Sign Pledge

Sepideh Moradi Sarvestani Sepideh Moradi Sarvestani, a member of the Gonabadi Dervish Sufi order, was expelled from Tehran’s Tarbiat Modares University on February 3, ...

September 20, 2011

Female Dervish Arrested To Pressure Her Son

“My mother was arrested in 2005 in Qom, along with about 1,500 other Dervishes, during the demolition of the Qom mosque,” he said about his mother’s prior arrest. “If you follow the news on the Majzooban-e-Noor website, which is the news website for the Gonabadi ...

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