In September 2011, five Dervish attorneys, alongside the editors of the Majzooban-e Noor website, were arrested.*

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They were charged with “membership in an illegal group to disrupt national security, spreading propaganda against the Islamic Republic, insulting the Supreme Leader, and disturbing public order.” Before their trial, Judge Salavati, the head of Branch 15 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court, changed the charge of “membership in an illegal group” to “formation of an illegal group” to prolong their temporary detention. In protest to violation of their due process rights, none of these attorneys attended their trials. Mostafa Daneshjou, Farshid Yadollahi Farsi, Amir Eslami, Omid Behrouzi, and Afshin Karampour were sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment and banned from political activities.

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