NCRI Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
Friday, May 5, 2006
The Iranian regime has in the past two days intensified a crackdown on members of the Iranian dervish community, according to state-controlled papers. Last February, State Security Forces (SSF) and paramilitary Basij forces brutally suppressed Nematollahi dervishes in Qom, and burned their center and mosque in the city to the ground.
On May 4, the mullahs’ judiciary sentenced 52 of the dervishes on charges of public “intrusion” and civil “disobedience” to imprisonment, flogging and fines, according to the government-controlled Kargozaran daily.
The sentenced dervishes are among the nearly 2000 people who were arrested in February in the course of the demolition of the Nematollahi dervishes’ Mosque in Qom.
In an unprecedent move, the dervishes' lawyers were fined, sentenced to five years in prison and disbarred by the clerical regime for defending dervishes.
The Iranian Resistance urges all human rights organizations and the UN’s Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion and Beliefs to condemn the crackdown on the Nematollahi Dervishes and take action in freeing those in custody.
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Iranian regime sentences 52 dervishes (sufi) to flogging and imprisonment
NCRI Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
Friday, May 5, 2006
The Iranian regime has in the past two days intensified a crackdown on members of the Iranian dervish community, according to state-controlled papers. Last February, State Security Forces (SSF) and paramilitary Basij forces brutally suppressed Nematollahi dervishes in Qom, and burned their center and mosque in the city to the ground.
On May 4, the mullahs’ judiciary sentenced 52 of the dervishes on charges of public “intrusion” and civil “disobedience” to imprisonment, flogging and fines, according to the government-controlled Kargozaran daily.
The sentenced dervishes are among the nearly 2000 people who were arrested in February in the course of the demolition of the Nematollahi dervishes’ Mosque in Qom.
In an unprecedent move, the dervishes' lawyers were fined, sentenced to five years in prison and disbarred by the clerical regime for defending dervishes.
The Iranian Resistance urges all human rights organizations and the UN’s Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion and Beliefs to condemn the crackdown on the Nematollahi Dervishes and take action in freeing those in custody.
Friday, May 5, 2006
The Iranian regime has in the past two days intensified a crackdown on members of the Iranian dervish community, according to state-controlled papers. Last February, State Security Forces (SSF) and paramilitary Basij forces brutally suppressed Nematollahi dervishes in Qom, and burned their center and mosque in the city to the ground.
On May 4, the mullahs’ judiciary sentenced 52 of the dervishes on charges of public “intrusion” and civil “disobedience” to imprisonment, flogging and fines, according to the government-controlled Kargozaran daily.
The sentenced dervishes are among the nearly 2000 people who were arrested in February in the course of the demolition of the Nematollahi dervishes’ Mosque in Qom.
In an unprecedent move, the dervishes' lawyers were fined, sentenced to five years in prison and disbarred by the clerical regime for defending dervishes.
The Iranian Resistance urges all human rights organizations and the UN’s Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion and Beliefs to condemn the crackdown on the Nematollahi Dervishes and take action in freeing those in custody.
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