Mohammad Ali Taheri

Taheri, in a letter to the Iranian president on January 13, 2019, called for the removal of Iranian citizenship in protest against injustice.

He was sent on leave on March 19, 2019 for Norouz holidays.But no one has seen him afterwards and there is a possibility that he was sentenced to death by unknown judges.

He was charged with corruption on earth for the third time in August 2018 by Judge Abolqasim Salavati in Branch 15 of the Revolutionary Court on a charge of five years' imprisonment, this charge must have been re-examined by the appeals court, but this never took place.In September 2018 Taheri was charged again on apostasy, false propaganda and association and collusion against national security. In a letter to Ahmad Shahid, a former UN human rights rapporteur for Iran, Taheri reported that he had been forced to fabricate confessions through psychological pressure and torture by IRGC interrogators.

He was due to be released on Feb. 7, 2016, after serving a full five-year sentence and the fine, when was prevented from being released on new charges. Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court, presided over by Judge Ahmadzadeh, convicted Taheri on charges of corruption on earth on February 27, 2017 once again which this was denied by Branch 33 of the Supreme Court for the second time.

Taheri was interrogated again in the summer of 2014 on charges of corruption on earth, and was eventually sentenced to death in court in May 2015.The UN high commissioner For Human Rights called this death sentence an “absolute outrage”. The support for death penalty was some scholars' referendums (Makarem Shirazi, Safi Golpayegani, and Alavi Gorgani), considered Mohammad Ali Taheri an apostate. The reasons for this apostasy included considering imams as not infallible, ridiculing the Mahdism, promoting incarnation theory and touching female patient’s hand while undergoing treatment.Taheri's lowers and students have had many activities for his freedom, as well as objecting the referendums which led to withdraw of scholars, and the sentence has been changed to five years imprisoning and a 900 million Toman fine.

On May 4, 2011 he was sentenced on charges of insulting the sacred, touching the female patient's hand while undergoing treatment, interfering with medical practice, obtaining illicit property, distributing audiovisual material and unauthorized use of medical scientific titles.

Mohammad Ali Taheri was arrested in 2010 by the Revolutionary Guards Intelligence Service on charges of acting against national security. He was also charged with corruption on earth at the beginning of his detention, but this was denied due to lack of documentation.

Mohammad Ali Taheri (born March 21, 1956 in Kermanshah, Iran) is an Iranian philosopher, mystic and theorist, the founder of Complementary Medicine treatments Faradarmani and Psymentology, as well as the Theory of Consciousness Integrity. He is also known as the founder of Human Rights Movement in Prison.