Four Dervish women sentenced to 20 years in prison
Reports indicate that four female dervishes imprisoned in Qarchak Prison in Varamin have been sentenced to a total of 20 years in prison on charges of "gathering and colluding with the intention of disrupting the country's security."
Some news websites and the Majzooban Noor Telegram channel, which publishes news about the dervishes, reported on Tuesday, July 3, that the Revolutionary Court, presided over by Judge Ahmadzadeh, had sentenced Nazila Noori, Avisha Jalaluddin, Sima Entesari, and Shima Entesari to five years in prison each.
The female dervishes were arrested last February following a protest rally by dervishes in front of the Tehran Revolutionary Guards police station and unrest on Golestan 7th Street, which resulted in the deaths of three officers and the injury of dozens of Gonabadi dervishes.
Over the months, relatives of these individuals repeatedly protested the violation of these prisoners' rights and their beatings.
According to the Majzooban Noor Telegram channel, these female dervishes were arrested and severely beaten during the Golestan 7 incident, and while in prison, they were deprived of their legal rights, including separation from prisoners for other public offenses, the right to contact relatives, and health and medical facilities.
In one of the latest incidents, female Dervish prisoners on June 12 were beaten and separated by prison guards.
Previously, the Majzooban Noor website reported that following Nazila Noori's being sent to the hospital for surgery, security officers present at the hospital announced that if the female prisoner was not tied to the bed with handcuffs and handcuffs, she would be returned to prison.
He was scheduled for surgery on the advice of his doctors, but he was also denied access to his family members in the hospital.
Previously, the husband of Dr. Nazila Nouri and the father of Kianoush Abbaszadeh, one of the arrested dervishes, described in an audio file provided to Voice of America that the imprisoned dervishes faced all kinds of physical and mental torture and were not allowed to have a lawyer.
In recent months, alarming news has been published about the violation of the rights of imprisoned dervishes, which has drawn reactions from international institutions. For example, on May 16, the International Federation of Human Rights Societies, referring to the trial of the detained Gonabadi dervishes with "undercover work," called this action a "farce of justice" and a "blatant violation of international standards."
In March of last year, the US State Department, while condemning the repression of the Gonabadi Dervishes, reacted to the suspicious death of one of these dervishes in detention, describing it as worrying.
Source: Voice of America
