Kasra Nouri

.Kasra Nouri is an M.A student in Human Rights at Tehran University and a Gonabadi Dervish. He was the admin of the Majzooban Noor website which published the news about Gonabadi Dervishes. He was arrested in 2017 along with his mother and two brothers and received a prison sentence.

• <coverage-outsourcing id='22402'> A group of seminary students and supporters of the state attacked a gathering of Dervishes in Kavar. The attack was the starting point for the new wave of arrests and suppression of Dervishes. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='1636'> Arrested at his home but five security agents. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='1637'> Released after posting 500 million rials ($16,678) bail. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='1638'> Arrested at his home for giving interviews to Radion Farda and accused of revealing Intelligence Ministry secrets. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='21154'> Kasra Nouri and Salehoddin Moradi went on hunger strike with the demand of the imprisoned dervishes' return to the ward 350 of Evin Prison. Based on a statement released by Amnesty International, Kasra Nouri was transferred to Shiraz Intelligence Detention Center for some time during the strike </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='1639'> Sentenced to four years and four months in prison by Judge Rashidi of Branch 3 of the Revolutionary Court in Shiraz. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='1640'> Sentence approved without change by Judge Zakernia and Judge Akbari of Branch 16 of the Appeals Court. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='1641'> Without any explanation he was transferred by security agents to Fars Province Prison No. 2, know as Nezam Prison, after serving two years at Adelabad Prison in Shiraz. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='21155'> Kasra Nouri went on a hunger strike in protest of the lack of effective health care provided to imprisoned dervishes. The strike was accompanied by a crowd of dervishes nationwide. The security forces attacked his supporters in front of the Tehran prosecutor's office and arrested a number of protesters. His mother, Shokoufeh Yadollahi, was also arrested. She was released a little later </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='21156'> Hamid Reza Moradi Sarvestani, Afshin Karampour, Farshid Yadollahi, Reza Entesari, Amir Eslami, Omid Behrouzi, Mostafa Daneshjou, Mostafa Abdi and Kasra Nouri went on hunger strike for an "explicit response by government officials for years of violating the rights of the dervishes and ending hostilities with mystics and Sufism". This strike resulted in a massive support of Dervishes. Several of them were arrested following a gathering of dervishes in Tehran </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='21160'> Moved to Evin Prison. Shokoufeh Yadollahi told the Center for Human Rights that the transfer had been made without a warrant or prior notice and they have not allowed him to collect his supplies, took him barefoot to the airport and beat him </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='3296'> He was released </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='21158'> At the same time as the nationwide protests, security forces arrested Kasra Nouri, Mohammad Reza Darvishi, Faezeh Abdipour and Mohammad Sharifi Moghaddam by attacking a hospital in Tehran. During the arrest, the detainees and a number of other citizens were beaten and gunshots were shot. All four were transferred to ward 209 of Evin Prison. The four Dervishes started their hunger strike as soon as they were arrested. They were transferred to solitary confinement cells of Rajayi Shahr prison in Karaj after a few days. Several other dervishes went on a sit-in to protest these arrests at Evin Prison. This unprecedented sit-in, which lasted about 10 days and included several hundreds to several thousand protesters at different times, led to the release of all four </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='21159'> Kasra Nouri, Mohammad Reza Darvishi, Faezeh Abdipour and Mohammad Sharifi Moghaddam were released on bail </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='22356'> 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='22357'> 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='21161'> 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='47770'> <reference source='https://www.bbc.com/persian/articles/cw40524jl1no?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA'> Kasra Nouri, his Mother Shokoufeh Yadollahi, and his two brothers, Pouria and Amir Nouri were violently arrested and severely beaten during the process. BBC Persian later did a report about the physical and psychological torture of Kasra Nouri. According to BBC, while in solitary in ward 209 of Evin Prison, the interrogators showed him a "picture of a dead young man his face damaged and unrecognizable and told him this is your brother. if you don't accept what we want, your other brother will have the same fate. Another day they told him that his mother has had a heart attack and there is no hope of her surviving. They kept him in solitary for a long time so they could mix lies and truths so he would agree to what they wanted." BBC also reported that Amir Nouri was tortured to confess against his brother Kasra. According to BBC, Amir Nouri "was kept on his feet for 18 hours straight without food or rest, The interrogator asked him to write where he was arrested, and as he wrote that he was arrested near his home by an Intelligence Ministry agent, the interrogator kicked his leg from under him and dropped him to the ground and sat on his shoulders and said, "either write that you were arrested at the protest or I'll step on your amputated finger and crush it even more." </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='22358'> 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='22370'> Some reports were published about his and other Dervishes transffer to Police lock-up and then ward 209 in Evin prison </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='22359'> 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='22360'> 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='23291'> Majzooban Noor reported that he refused to appear in court </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='23332'> According to Majzooban Noor, Reza Entesari, Kasra Nouri, Mostafa Abdi, Sina Entesari, Salahuddin Moradi, and Mohammad Sharifi Moghaddam released a letter explaining the reason for their absence from court. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='23526'> His sentence was reported. He was tried in absentia by the 26th branch of the revolutionary court of Tehran presided by Judge Ahmadzadeh. He was sentenced to seven years and six months in prison for “assembly and collusion against national security”, 18 months in prison and 74 lashes for the charge of “disrupting the public order and peace”, 18 months in prison for “disobeying officers while on duty”, and 18 months in prison for “propaganda against the state”. He was also exiled to Salas Babajani for two years and was banned from leaving the country and social rights for two years. After applying article 134 of the IPC, 12 years of his sentence is enforceable. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='23750'> The Fashafuyeh Prison Guards attacked and assaulted the dervishes who has organized a sit-in in solidarity with female dervishes in prison. After the violent attack, some of them were taken to solitary confinement. In later days the altercations between the dervishes and prison guards continues and as a result, some of the dervishes were transferred to solitary confinement and some to violent offenders’ ward; the dervishes were also assaulted by prison guards and dangerous criminals, and some dervishes went on long hunger strikes. Reza Entesari, Kasra Nouri, Morteza Kangarlou, Amir Nouri, Sina Entesari, Mohammad Sharifi Moghaddam, Hessam Moeini, and Mehdi Eskandari were moved to solitary confinements. In the next few months, nobody was aware of their whereabouts. After 82 days, Salahuddin Moradi, another dervish in Fashafuyeh who was on hunger strike with Mohammad Reza Darvishi in defense of the missing dervishes, was allowed a visit with them and reported that they are still held in the same prison. About a month later it was reported that the solitary doors were opened and later the prisoners were allowed to walk the corridor of the security ward. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='23788'> He signed a letter along with a group of dervishes announcing that just as they did not attend the primary “show trials”, they do not consider it wise to ask for an appeal from a “totalitarian, unjust, and tyrannical” state. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='27324'> Shokoufeh Yadollahi was allowed to visit her children in the Greater Tehran Prison after 1.5 years. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='27818'> A number of imprisoned dervishes were transferred to other different prisons across the country. It was reported that they were not informed about the transfer in advance, and it was done at the request of security agencies. He was transferred to Shiraz Prison. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='30660'> <reference source='https://prisonatlas.com/%db%b3%db%b9-%d8%af%d8%b1%d9%88%db%8c%d8%b4-%da%af%d9%86%d8%a7%d8%a8%d8%a7%d8%af%db%8c-%d8%aa%d8%a8%d8%b9%db%8c%d8%af-%d9%88-%db%b4-%d9%86%d9%81%d8%b1-%d8%a8%d8%a7-%d8%b6%d8%b1%d8%a8-%d9%88/'> According to IPA, Seven Darwish prisoners named Kasra Nouri, Mostafa Abdi, Kianoosh Abbaszadeh, Vahid Khamoushi, Abbas Dehghan, Amin Saffari, and Mohammad Sharifi Moghadam, are still in prison. Mohammad Sharifi Moghaddam, Kianoosh Abbaszadeh, Abbas Dehghan, and Mostafa Abdi were beaten and transferred to the 5th Brigade of Fashafoyeh Prison. 39 dervishes, including Saeed Soltanpour, Rasoul Hoveida, Mohammad Reza Darvishi, Saeed Karimaei, Mostafa Mir Mohammadi, Babak Moradi, Kianoosh Biranvand, Hadi Shahreza, Saeed Durandish, Ehsaneddin Malek Mohammadi, Mehdi Keyvanloo, and Jafar Ahmadi, have been transferred to Sistan and Baluchestan, South Khorasan and Kerman provinces for serving the exile sentence </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='34371'> <reference source=''> According to IPA, in a phone call to his family, Kasra Nouri told them that he has been transferred to ward 8 of Evin Prison. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='35224'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2021/hranews/a-29362/'> He was transferred to Adel Abad Prison in Shiraz. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='35824'> <reference source='https://bit.ly/3eEixPS'> Kasra Nouri’s name was put on the list of 10 journalists in the world in immediate danger. The list was published by the Committee to Protect Journalists and the Freedom of the Press Coalition. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='37795'> <reference source='https://twitter.com/Pourinouri91'> Kasra Nouri was fired from Tehran University for “not attending university”. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='37790'> <reference source='https://twitter.com/IranIntl/status/1409427501198217221?s=20'> In a letter to the dean of Tehran University, 345 students at this university demanded the reversal of the decision to fire Kasra Nouri. The signatories called his firing an “erasure and a security action”. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='37788'> <reference source='https://twitter.com/Pourinouri91/status/1412032339413250050?s=20'> Pouya Nouri wrote that the university authorities have held an emergency session and reversed the decision to fire Kasra Nouri. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='37789'> <reference source='https://bit.ly/3lH6ioL'> In a letter to the chief of the judiciary, the dean of Tehran University at the time, Mahmoud Nili Ahmad Abadi asked for the release of Kasra Nouri. He lost his own job in response. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='41184'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2022/hranews/a-36430/'> Kasra Nouri has been denied visits from family and access to newspapers. An HRANA source reported: “Kasra Nouri is being denied domestic newspapers and magazines and the chance to continue his education from prison.” According to HRANA, he has been denied family visitation due to the long distance of his prison from the city where his family lives. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='41556'> <reference source='https://twitter.com/Pourinouri91/status/1563487518347378690'> Pouria Nouri reported on Twitter that his brother Kasra Nouri has been taken to an undisclosed location without a warrant or any explanation. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='41613'> <reference source='https://twitter.com/Pourinouri91/status/1564501501476626434'> Pouria Nouri reported that his brother Kasra called their mother and told her that he's been transferred to the Intelligence Ministry lockup in Shiraz. Pouria Nouri wrote: > He was interrogated and they told him that it's because of signing the joint statement of political; activists in prison, including Narges Mohammadi and Keyvan Samimi. Even though such a statement has not been published yet. In another tweet, Pouria reported that his mother has started a sit-in across from Adel Abad Prison in Shiraz. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='41721'> <reference source='https://twitter.com/FYadollahifarsi/status/1566692335030788097'> His attorney Farshid Yadollahi announced on Twitter that another case has been brought against his client. According to Mr. Yadollahi, Kasra Nouri was arraigned for the new case on the charge of assembly and collusion to act against national security. The case was opened that the 14th branch of the revolutionary court of Shiraz. He said the reason for the new case is the joint statement of a few political prisoners; A statement that has not been released yet. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='41808'> <reference source='https://cutt.ly/UCIys3c'> He was returned to the political prisoners' ward of Adel Abad prison. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='47821'> Kasra Nouri was not included in the "public pardon and sentence reduction" order of the judiciary. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='48050'> <reference source='https://twitter.com/Pourinouri91/status/1629526850740400133'> 12 civil rights activists and political prisoners released a joint statement demanding the immediate release of Kasra Nouri. The signatories point out that he must be released in accordance with the general pardon issued by the judiciary, but he hasn't. The signatories also demanded the release of other political prisoners in the same situation, such as Zahra Zehtabchi, Saeed Eghbali, and Younes Alsorkhi. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='49526'> <reference source='https://twitter.com/Pourinouri91/status/1636317387594055680?s=20'> He was released from prison. On February 5th, 2023, the Islamic Republic's Judiciary issued a memo that announced the beginning of the process of releasing some of the protesters arrested during the 2022 national uprising. According to the judiciary's Mizan website, and latest comments made by the spokesperson for the judiciary, this "pardon" is in honor of the anniversary of the Islamic Revolution and contingent on the prisoners expressing regret; The pardon is not extended to cases with charges such as "connection to dissident groups", and "destruction of public property". However, many of the released prisoners have posted videos and notes saying they never requested a pardon and never expressed regret. There are even videos of female activists taking off their hijab and chanting against the Islamic Republic in front of the prison moments after their release. The release of prisoners being called a pardon has caused massive reaction online and some activists on social media and human rights organizations consider it a PR stunt to repair some of the damage to Ali Khamenei's image. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>