Families of Dervish detainees rallied on Sunday morning for the 2nd straight day along with a large number of Dervish community members from across Iran, gathering outside the mullahs’ so-called public prosecutor’s office in Tehran and expressing their anger over the recent waves of arrests and inhumane behaviors against the Dervish detainees.
The regime’s repressive anti-riot guard forces, Ministry of Intelligence plainclothes agents and Bassij members attacked the protesters and arrested a large number of them, transferring many with at least 20 vans to various police stations.
They even took old mothers and various members of the Dervish inmates to another area in order to prevent people from joining their rally.
According to reports received from inside Iran at least 1,000 Dervish community members have to this point been transferred to this area where the regime’s security forces are preventing others from joining their ranks.
The families of the Dervish inmates and other Dervish community members, that slept last night at a religious center where regime forces had transferred them to, were literally besieged this morning by plainclothes agents and anti-riot forces that prevented them from exiting the area.
The regime’s security forces resorting to the severe beating of old Dervish mothers and young women outside the public prosecutor’s office raised immense anger amongst the protesters. This widespread protest rally is being held in support of the Dervish inmates in Evin and Shiraz prisons who have been on hunger strike since August 31st.