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The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran - Christian pastor Saeed Abedini was conducting a routine visit to the non-profit orphanage his family helped to start in Rasht when Iranian security forces arrested him and seized his passport in July 2012. Five months later, Iranian courts convicted him of “undermining national security,” accusing him and other Christian converts of waging a “soft war” against the Iranian government through their practice of Christianity in informal house churches.

Majzooban Noor - The family of Gonabadi Dervish, Abdolghafour Ghalandari Nejad, succeeded to visit with him.

Majzooban Noor - The Gonabadi Dervishes residing in the city of Bandar Abbas, gathered in front of Hormozgan Province's Intelligence office this morning on Saturday, 31 Farvardin 1392 ( April 20, 2013).

Radio Zamaneh - Iranian authorities have arrested another Gonabadi dervish, Abdolghafour Ghalandarinejad, in Bandar Abbas.

IOPHRI - In a mail to a member of IOPHRI, the Belgian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Didier Reynders expresses his concern about the human rights situation in Iran in general and the persecution of religious minorities, such as the dervishes, in particular.

The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran - Seven Dervish lawyers being held at the Intelligence Ministry’s Ward 209 at Evin Prison have not had access to light in months and have developed various illnesses, the wife of one of the lawyers told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. Sedigheh Khalili, the wife of imprisoned lawyer Hamidreza Moradi, added that officials have warned them not to give interviews to the media.

HRANA News Agency – Imprisoned Baha’i women are suffering a very tough and inhuman condition in the women ward of the Semnan central prison and spending imprisonments’ duration became intolerable for them.

Majzooban Noor - The imprisoned Dervish lawyers after three months, were transferred back to Evin Prison's General Ward 350 and their families could visit them this morning.