The detainees are in the custody of the notorious Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) in Tehran. Most are in their 60s and 70s and suffer from various illnesses.
A number of the dervishes were severely beaten during interrogation in the hands of the MOIS agents.
It is not the first time dervishes are treated inhumanly by the mullahs' regime. Throughout the country, the followers of the Dervishes are subject to cruel treatments.
Since 2005, the mullahs' regime has attacked their mosques throughout the country. Holy city of Qom and western city of Borujerd were the two bloodiest raids made on dervishes' mosques.
On May 4, 2006, the mullahs' judiciary sentenced 52 of the dervishes on charges of public "intrusion" and civil "disobedience" to imprisonment, flogging and fines, according to the government-controlled Kargozaran daily.
The sentenced dervishes are among the nearly 2000 people who were arrested in February 2006, in the course of the demolition of the Nematollahi dervishes' mosque in Qom.
In an unprecedented move, the lawyers were fined, sentenced to five years in prison and disbarred by the clerical regime for defending dervishes.