Sima Entesari

She is a Dervish woman who was arrested during the clashes between security forces and Gonabadi dervishes at 7th Golestan street and transferred to Qarchak prison in Varamin

<coverage-outsourcing id='21941'> After setting up a checkpoint near the house of the head of Gonabadi dervishes, Nour Ali Tabandeh, a group of Dervishes from across Iran came to Tehran to protect him and gathered in front of his home. This part of Tehran was a scene of clashes between security forces of the Islamic Republic and the Gonabadi Dervishes for several days. Eventually, security officials failed to arrest Nour Ali Tabandeh, but they would sporadically arrest other dervishes </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='21940'> Security officials arrested two Gonabadi dervishes. Nematollah Riahi went to the police station to follow up on their situation, but he himself was arrested there as well </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='21942'> After the arrest of Nematollah Riahi, a group of Gonabadi dervishes gathered in protest of his arrest in front of the police station 102 at Pasdaran street in Tehran and demanded his release. After a clash between the security forces and the Gonabadi dervishes, the area of unrest increased, and once again the Golestan 7th street turned into a battleground between Gonabadi dervishes and security guards. On this day and in the following days, a large number of dervishes were arrested. It is estimated that the number of arrestees is between 300 and 500 people. A number of Basiji and police officers were also killed in the clashes </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='21937'> Hundreds of dervishes were arrested around this date </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='21938'> Majzouban-e-Noor website reported that Mohammad Raji was killed in prison. Tehran Prosecutor, Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi, and Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje'i, the spokesman for the judiciary, denied his killing during the interrogations and stated that he had lost his life during the clashes. The Judiciary news agency "Mizan" wrote that he had been injured and transferred to Baghiatollah hospital, but died there. According to witnesses, Mr. Raji was still alive after his arrest and was released at the detention center. It is unclear whether he was killed under torture or due to lack of effective health care. A few weeks later, another dervish prisoner, Mohammad Salas, was sentenced to death on charges of "killing three policemen and soldiers" in a quick trial </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='21935'> Majzooban Noor website has reported that the current holding conditions of the women in Qarchak prison is “critical and horrendous”. According to the website, the lack of proper air conditioning and the unfathomable state of sanitation, has led to the smell of sewage and resulting gasses creating an unbearable situation for the prisoners. Nazila Nouri, Shokoufeh Yadollahi, Sepideh Moradi, Sima Entezari, Shima Entezari, Shahnaz Kiani, Maryam Farisani, Elham Ahmadi, Avisha Jalaloddin, Masoumeh Yarakouhi, and Sedigheh Safabakht are the 11 imprisoned dervish women who have been kept in Qarchak prison since February 20th, 2018 </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='21939'> Amnesty International has issued a statement announcing that eight of the arrested Gonabadi Dervishes went on hunger strike in protest of "torture and other cruel and inhuman treatments" at Tehran Shapour Criminal Investigation police detention center. The prison is known for torture of detainees for confessions. The names of these prisoners are Javad Khamisabadi, Kianoush Abbaszadeh, Ahmad Mousavi, Nourali Mousavi, Mehdi Eskandari, Amir Labaf, Mir sadegh and Abbas Dehghan. It is reported that Abbas Dehghan has been threatened that his wife would be raped in front of him if he does not confess. Amnesty International says the prisoner dervishes are deprived of having attorney and the families of some of them are unaware of their whereabouts. The organization also issued a statement announcing that 11 dervish women are detained at the Rey Gharchak prison in undesirable and inhumane conditions and expressed concern about their situation and called for their immediate release </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='21936'> An informed source told Atlas that at least 300 of the dervishes are still in detention. He emphasized that almost none of them have access to lawyers, and security officers are attributing the charge of "using violence" to those who only participated in the protests, filing group cases against them </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='26972'> Trials of Gonabadi Dervishes started in April 2018 in a major way. Most trials were held in the branches 15 and 26 of Tehran’s revolutionary court headed by Judges Salavati and Ahmadzade. In some cases, Dervishes didn’t take part in the trial or questioned the impartiality of the judge. In the coming weeks and months, heavy sentences of imprisonment and exile were issued for many citizens. The IPA has registered the sentences, assuming Article 134 is going to apply them </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='21934'> Iran Wire reported that all 11 of the Dervish women in custody at Qarchak prison have been denied the right to a lawyer, and have been deprived of basic sanitation and health necessities. The order for their arrest was carried out without any supporting legal cause, and done solely through the infiltration of IRGC intelligence </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='22806'> Sedigheh Khalili told the Center for Human Rights in Iran that the 4 lawyers assigned to the female Dervish prisoners haven’t been able to meet or go through the casefiles of their clients yet. Gharchak prison authorities have confiscated the prisoners’ telephone cards due to one of them having communicated to the outside about the inadequate prison conditions. They’ve been charged both with “gathering and colluding for acting against national security” and “disturbing public order”. From the 80 to 90 female Dervish prisoners seen by Sedigheh Khalili, 11 have been transferred to Gharchak prison, with 10 still in custody. The rest of the female dervishes have been released </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='22832'> Majzouban-e-Noor reported that the dervish women are deprived of telephone calls </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='22956'> According to the website Majzoobne Noor, dervish women held in Qarchak were beaten up by prison guards. Based on a statement by Sina Entesari in a voice file published from the Greater Tehran Prison, resistance of dervish women against being sent to different branches of the prison led to the attack by the guard. Sedighe Khalili, mother of an imprisoned dervish woman, Sepideh Khalili, told Majzoobane Noor that a person called Colonel Poorabdoli, deputy head of the prison, has told her: “To hell with whatever happens to dervish women. They shouldn’t have come to prison to be put in this situation” </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='23270'> Dervish women ended the hunger strike </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='23316'> She was sentenced to five years in prison by judge Ahmadzadeh </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='25581'> An informed source told IPA that she is incarcerated in Qarchak prison </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='27320'> She was transferred to Evin prison </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='27080'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/statements/a-426/'> Seventeen political prisoners in the Women’s Section of Evin published a statement to condemn the behavior shown by judicial and security apparatus to those political prisoners who are also mothers. A quote from the statement: “In all these years, the misogynist government has fought women and mothers who stand up for freedom and justice. That the fight continues is itself a sign of increasing awareness and acceleration of women’s struggles and protests. There are many examples. Just in the last few months, we saw the arrest of Farangis Mazloom, despite her sickness, because she was defending her son, Soheil Arabi. Alireza Shirmohammadi’s mother, because she didn’t have the 80 million toman to post bail, lost her son in prison. Rahele Asl Ahmadi, because she wanted freedom for her daughter, Saba Kurdafshari, was arrested; and many other cases.” </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>