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Shabtanews -Dozens of political and social activists have  expressed concern over the situation of the Gonabadi Sufis in prison and the violation of their basic rights

Shabtabnews – Spokesperson Nauert, Senior Policy Brian Advisor Hook, and Ambassador Michael Kozak brief the press on human rights in Iran at the Foreign Press Center in NewYork City on September 28, 2018. In the briefing Ms Nauert condemned the Iranian regime’s oppression of religious minorities like Gonabadi Sufis, Bahia’s, & Christian converts.

Shabtabnews – The families of these eight Sufis  have received no information about their physical condition or their location for the last 30 days.

Shabtabnews – 19 Sufi’s  imprisoned Fashafiya Prison , who are all on hunger striker ,were banned from meeting  their families on the orders of the prison authorities .

Shabtabnews – Ahmad Irankhah and Saeed Durandish were arrested two days ago and imprisoned in Fashafiyeh Prison as they protested the lack of information about the whereabouts of eight imprisoned Sufis who have disappeared since the prison authorities  assaulted the  Sufis  in Fashafiyeh prison last month.

Shabtab- The Iranian regime not only regularly violates the rights of its citizens, but as the following clip shows, it is ready to adopt  distracting tactics in order to stop any mention of these violations within established world bodies.

Shabtabnews – On Thursday, 20th September, the representative of International Organisation to Preserve Human Rights (IOPHR), Dr Hamid Gharahgozloo, at the invitation of the United States Department of State conducted direct talks with the Mr Sam Brownback, the United States Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom.

The desire of the Iranian regime to uphold the Islamic Revolution has especially resulted in the vast suppression of the freedom of religion in Iran, often to barbaric ends. Last month, a simple man, a bus driver, father of two children and a member of the Iranian Gonabadi Sufi dervishes community was convicted and sentenced to death. The sentence came …

IOPHR – Last night, seven armed agents of Irainian security forces stormed Mostafa Daneshjoo’s maternal home and arrested Mr  Daneshjoo’s  in the presence of his family members by violently breaking down the door of his family home and firing weapons.

IOPHR- The removal of security barriers earlier today around the home of Dr Noor Ali Tabandeh signals the imminent end of his house arrest.