Iranian rights groups say a court has sentenced four women of Iran's Gonabadi Dervish minority to five years in prison each for participating in an anti-government protest that turned violent in ...

Appearing in tourism promotion films and at Eurovision song contests, their distinctive circular dancing has never been more widely publicised. Some say what has been happening of late is a sign of a ...

An exiled Iranian Dervish rights activist says Iran’s ongoing seven-month jailing of seven Dervish women in tough conditions near Tehran is in violation of national prison regulations. “The situation ...

Iranian human rights activists and journalists said on Tuesday that the Islamic Republic killed a Dervish prisoner of conscience after he was forcibly sent to a psychiatric clinic that disrupted his ...

Protests by the Sufi Dervish community outside a police station in Tehran resulted in clashes that have led to the death of three policemen. The policemen are reported to have been hit by a bus. The ...

Iranian courts have sentenced more than 200 members of a Sufi order to prison terms and other punishments over the past four months in one of the largest crackdowns against a religious minority in ...

At least five Iranian security forces were killed in separate car-ramming attacks and a stabbing, blamed on Sufi Muslim followers who had been protesting alleged religious repression by the government ...