Regime in Iran doesn't stop its persecutions

Majzooban.org - Dervishes threatened to interrupt treatment and be returned to prison

According to the oral order of the deputy prosecutor, the prison authorities of Evin by dispatching the guards of the jail, threatened the imprisoned dervishes admitted in the Shohada e Tajrish hospital to take them back to jail if they defy using handcuffs and shackles.

Following Mr. Khodabakhshi's visit (Sunday 26 April), deputy prosecutor and prosecutor overseeing security political prisoners, from the mentioned hospital and imprisoned prisoners, yesterday afternoon, the dervish prisoners were admitted to this hospital by an oral order and were required to use handcuffs and shackles.

Mr. Hamid-Reza Moradi and Mr. Mostafa Daneshjou, two human rights activists of Gonabadi Dervishes, who are now admitted in this hospital, declared the oral statement had no legal basis and refused to be handcuffed and shackled. Afterwards their action prompted the prison authorities to threaten them to interrupt their treatment and were sent back to jail.

Consequently, the treatment team of these two dervishes refused the transfer of them to the prison, and declared that any involvement in the prisoner's treatment would need a written notice and letter issued by the judicial authorities.

According to their physicians, these two dervishes who suffer from lung and heart diseases must be strongly kept away from stress and conditions which cause tensions.

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Closing Down of the Charity Organisation "Reza Aid/Social Service" of Dervishes

This NGO has have been giving services over twenty years in various fields of social charity services, such as, education, health, employment, helping the age, homeless, and etc, as result the residence home for elderly has been closed and elderly men and women are now homeless.

The building of "Reza Social Service" institute, affiliated with Gonabadi Dervishes, was shut down, barricaded and sealed. Other social service buildings including the administrative, education, and even the elderly home divisions were also shut down.

Confiscated several non-profit social service organizations including the elderly welfare home, only because honourable Dervishes worked there in selfless service to god's creation. In a brazen act of law-breaking and astonishing new laws of inhumanness, the security agents threw frail and helpless elderly people, who were there for medical care and supervision, into the streets and sent them adrift and homeless from their place of care.

With involvement by plain-clothes agents of the "Bureau of Sects and Religions", the security forces of the Army, Basij (para-military forces) and Intelligence Service entered the private home of Mr. Ali Akbar Bonakdar, a member of the Gonabadi Dervishes and the director of the non- profit institute known as "Madad-kari-ye Reza" (Reza Social Service). They confiscated all of Mr. Bonakdar's personal property, and transferred them together with him and his family members to the offices of the institute for further investigation. There, the aforementioned agents began to review the documents and records available in the offices, and then seized, packed, confiscated and hauled away all documents, records, computers and all other equipment and property of the "Reza Social Service" institute. With the help of a group of Gonabadi Dervishes, the "Reza Social Service" institute has been operating for over 20 years and serving the public in a multitude of social service arenas, including education, healthcare, job placement, elderly home, etc.

It should be mentioned that some notable individuals such as Parvin Soleymani, an old actress of theater and cinema and one of the followers of mysticism, had spent the final years of her life without being supported by any institution at the Reza Aid Center.

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