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 ...

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 ...

PRIZREN, Kosovo – For an Islamic dervish order in southern Kosovo, it's time for the annual celebration to mark the new year, the birthday of the sect's founder and spring. That means holding a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...