Iran’s Detained Dervish Women Beaten in Prison, Mother Says

A member of Iran’s Gonadabi dervish minority says she has learned that her jailed daughter and other dervish women detained near Tehran have been severely beaten by Iranian security agents. In a Thursday phone interview with VOA Persian, Sedigheh Khalili said she heard of the beatings while visiting Qarchak prison on Tehran’s southern outskirts. Her daughter Sepideh Moradi is one of 10 dervish women who have been detained there since February, when they participated in a dervish...

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