Sentences for nine suspected dervishes in the 3rd brigade of the Great Tehran Penitentiary has been issued by the judges, Salavati and Ahmadzadeh of the Revolutionary Court. According to the report, the sentences are as below:
Mostafa Rahsepar: 7 years behind bars, 74 lashes
Jahangir Haghani: 7 years behind bars and 74 lashes
Abolfazl Baba Hosseini: 7 years behind bars and 74 lashes
Arash Moradi: 7 years behind bars
Asghar Mohammadi: 7 years behind bars
Mehdi Eskandari: 6 years behind bars and 2 years ban on leaving the country
Ghasim Zamani: 3 years behind bars
Nader Yavari: 6 months behind bars
Emad Goodarzi: 6 months behind bars
On February 19, 2018, police and plainclothes in coordination with each other, attacked the dervishes who had gathered to protest the arrest of a dervish at the police station of 102 Pasdaran Street. In this attack hundreds of the dervishes were arrested including 60 women. Till now more than 400 men are detained at the Great Tehran Prison in Fashafuyeh and 11 women detained at Qarchak Prison in Ray City.
