Amnesty International USA News
AI Index: NWS 21/003/2006 - The Wire
April 2006 Vol. 36. No. 03
Hundreds of demonstrators, including women and children, were injured when police and organized pro-government groups broke up a peaceful protest by Nematollahi Sufi Muslims in Qom, Iran, on 13 February.
At the beginning of March at least 173 people were still detained, including lawyer Bahman Nazari, himself a Sufi Muslim, who reportedly travelled from the city of Tabriz in north-west Iran to Qom in order to try and represent the detainees. He was arrested as soon as he approached officials and presented his practice licence. The detainees’ families have been unable to obtain information about their whereabouts, legal status, health or conditions.
There appears to be increasing "demonization" of the Sufi Muslim group in Iran.
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Iranian Sufi Muslim protesters still detained
Amnesty International USA News
AI Index: NWS 21/003/2006 - The Wire
April 2006 Vol. 36. No. 03
Hundreds of demonstrators, including women and children, were injured when police and organized pro-government groups broke up a peaceful protest by Nematollahi Sufi Muslims in Qom, Iran, on 13 February.
At the beginning of March at least 173 people were still detained, including lawyer Bahman Nazari, himself a Sufi Muslim, who reportedly travelled from the city of Tabriz in north-west Iran to Qom in order to try and represent the detainees. He was arrested as soon as he approached officials and presented his practice licence. The detainees’ families have been unable to obtain information about their whereabouts, legal status, health or conditions.
There appears to be increasing "demonization" of the Sufi Muslim group in Iran.
AI Index: NWS 21/003/2006 - The Wire
April 2006 Vol. 36. No. 03
Hundreds of demonstrators, including women and children, were injured when police and organized pro-government groups broke up a peaceful protest by Nematollahi Sufi Muslims in Qom, Iran, on 13 February.
At the beginning of March at least 173 people were still detained, including lawyer Bahman Nazari, himself a Sufi Muslim, who reportedly travelled from the city of Tabriz in north-west Iran to Qom in order to try and represent the detainees. He was arrested as soon as he approached officials and presented his practice licence. The detainees’ families have been unable to obtain information about their whereabouts, legal status, health or conditions.
There appears to be increasing "demonization" of the Sufi Muslim group in Iran.
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