Saturday, August 1, 2015 5:22:57 PM
The
Islamic Revolutionary Court held its charges against Mohammad-Ali
Taheri the founder of a spiritual group in Iran as his lawyer said.
Mohammad-Ali
Taheri, an Iranian physician, researcher and author in the field of
Interuniversalist alternative medicine, convicted to death penalty at
branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court and the court decision received by
his lawyer Mahmoud Alizadeh Tabatabaei on July 2015 .
Dr.
Taheri, the founder of a spiritual group so-called “Erfan-E-Halgheh”
(deviated Halqeh Cult) who has been in Evin prison since May 2011, was
sentenced to capital punishment on the charge of “Ifsad fi al-Arz”
(spreading corruption on Earth) under Islamic Penal Code as his lawyer
Mahmoud Alizadeh said.
He
has been in the solitary confinement since his arrest, and in November
2014, he started a dry hunger strike (whereby a prisoner refuses both
food and water) for 25 days to protest against his unfair isolation
inside Ward 2-A Sepah at Evin prison in Iran’s capital, Tehran.
The
governmental news agencies closed to Iran’s Intelligence Service said
that Mr. Taheri convicted to six years imprisonment. He was previously
sentenced to 37 years in prison, fine on the charge of blasphemy,
disturbing the medical treatment and also convicted to 74 lashes for
touching his patients without a medical license in the Revolutionary
Court on 2014-2015 as news agencies said.
Mr.
Taheri asked Ahmed Shaheed, the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights
in Iran, to review his case by sending an open letter in April 2014.
Hereof,
Amnesty International has concerned about Mr.Taheri’s critical
situation in a statement on 30 August 2014. Moreover, Amnesty
International started a
campaign to release Mr. Taheri sending letter immediately to Iran’s authorities.
Mohammad
Ali Taheri was detained on 4 May 2011 by officials linked to Iran’s
Revolutionary Guards and held incommunicado for nine months in Ward 2-A
of the Evin Prison. Branch 26 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in
Tehran convicted him, on 30 October 2011, of “insulting Islamic
sanctities” and allegedly sentenced him to five years in prison after
four court sessions in which he defended himself.
The
Iranian physician has been serving his prison sentence entirely in
solitary confinement and his repeated requests to be transferred to a
cell shared with other inmates have been denied.
He reportedly committed at least seven hunger strike as rights groups declared.
His excruciating life in the chambers at the hands of the Islamic Republic regime of Iran includes:
4
May 2011 –hunger/food strike, no news or trace of him, no
permission/information provided to his lawyer, or to his family, no
text, phone messages, nothing!
12
Apr 2011 – one-day detention – arrested & released for no apparent
reason, but threatened to stop his lessons and group meetings
18 Apr 2010 – arrested, spending 68 days in solitary confinement, bailed out until further notice.
Mr. Taheri's fans have began a
campaign to release him asking the worldwide's citizens help them.
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