Shabtabnews – The authorities of Fashafiyeh prison, attempted to break the hunger strike of five Sufi prisoners through their transfer to the Prison Disciplinary Committee, and harsh judicial threats.
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Imprisoned Sufi families are prohibited from visiting Dr Noor Ali Tabandeh
Shabtabnews – The Iranian security agents arrested the families of imprisoned Sufis, who tried to visit the house of Dr. Noor Ali Tabandeh, the leader of Gonabadi Sufis. Dr. Noor Ali Tabandeh, who has been under house arrest for eight months, is prevented from leaving his house or having visitors.
Read More »Twitter Campaign to free Dr Noor Ali Tabandeh from house arrest.
Shabtabnews- On Friday 12th October, there will be worldwide twitter campaign between 18:30-19:30 GMT under #FreeTabandeh tag, to demand the immediate release of human right lawyer and the spiritual leader of Gonabadi Sufi’s, Dr Tabandeh from house arrest.
Read More »6 years jail and 74 lashes for simply serving tea in Sufi gatherings
Shabtabnews – As part of the systematic Stalinist type trials by the Iranian authorities against any type of association with Sufism, Mr. Dadashi was sentenced to 6 years in prison and 74 lashes, all in space of a few minutes by the Iranian judiciary! All because he has supposed to have served tea in Sufi gatherings!
Read More »Vahid Khamooshi is sentenced to 12 years in prison and 2 year exile
Shabtabnews – The trials of the Gonabadi dervishes and the issuance of heavy sentences during short trials, which lasted several minutes for each Sufi, has aroused serious objections from the Sufis, their families and from protesting public opinion and the general legal community.
Read More »A group of prominent Iranian figures appeal to end the house arrest of Dr. Noor Ali Tabandeh
Shabtabnews – Numerous Iranian personalities and activists in various social, civil, economic, cultural, legal fields, and human rights activists and civil rights activists, journalists, jurists and thinkers, and political prisoners and their families, and women’s rights activists all have expressed concern about the health of Dr. Noor Ali Tabandeh and they have called for the ending of his illegal and inhuman …
Read More »Sadegh Qaisari’s hunger strike in protest against Dr. Noor Ali Tabandeh’s house arrest
Shabtabnews – Sadegh Qaisari, a student who was arrested on the night of Golestan’s 7th protest in February and was transferred to the # Fashafiyah Prison with hundreds of other Gonabadi dervishes, went on a hunger strike in protest of house arrest of Dr. Noor Ali Tabandeh the leader of Gonabadi Sufis and the general conditions of Dervish prisoners.
Read More »Petition: To Help FREE 91 year old Dr. #NoorAliTabandeh from House Arrest, a Human Rights Lawyer & Spiritual Leader
Shabtabnews- IOPHR has instigated a campaign to Help FREE 91 year old Dr. #NoorAliTabandeh from House Arrest, a Human Rights Lawyer & Spiritual Leader of over 8 million peaceful Sufi Gonabadi Dervishes. Since February Sufi protest, over 400 Sufi men and women have been arrested, tortured and held in terrible conditions within notorious Iranian prisons, as well placing the 91 …
Read More »Inhuman treatment of Sufi prisoners and the silence of the country’s legal community
Shabtabnews – While the executive decrees of prisons insist that the location of prisoners should be proportionate to their crime, hundreds of Gonabadi Sufis, even though their verdict has not been finalised, have been imprisoned for more than seven months amongst hard line criminals, drug traffickers and violent offenders and are thus forced to spend their days in jail under the worst …
Read More »Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi’s attack on Sufi followers
Shabtabnews – Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi, in a speech delivered to the Revolutionary Guard Corps, called the Sufis and their beliefs a “danger”, and demanded that they be confronted and their spread in the country be controlled.
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