Association to no longer be a marja al-taqlid); Abdul-Karim Mousavi Ardebili, Asadollah Bayat-Zanjani Abdol-Hamid Masoumi-Tehrani (sentenced to prison in the Clerical Court on at least two occasions); Hassan Tabatabaei Qomi (kept under house arrest for some time) and passed away in confinement) Ahmad Khonsari Mohammad Rouhani Mohammad Sadeq Rouhani Mohammad al-Shirazi Mohammed Ridha al-Shirazi Mohammad Taher al‐Shubayr al‐Khaqani Yasubedin Rastegar Jooybari Hossein Kazemeyni Boroujerdi Mahmoud Abu al-Hasan al-Taleqani Sheikh Muhammad Tahir Aal Shabbir Khan Sheikh Muhammad Ali al-Abtahi Sheikh Sadiq al-Shirazi Abdolkarim Soroush Have spent sometime in the prisons of the Clerical Court. Hadi Ghaffari, (hard-line cleric specializing in seizing expropriated properties, was convicted of embezzlement in the early 1990s), Ali Tehrani (broadcast anti-Islamic Republic speeches on Baghdad's Farsi-speaking radio and television; was arrested when he returned to Iran in 1995 and was sentenced to 20 years in prison but was released after ten years in 2005); Abdolmajid Moradzehi (aide to Sunni cleric arrested in January 2023 for “manipulating public opinion” and “communicating on several occasions with foreign individuals and media outlets”); Kazemeini Boroujerdi, (imprisoned in Evin Prison for "crimes against God", after he refused to accept the doctrine of absolute velayat-e faqih); Morteza Fahim Kermani Hadi Ghabel, (convicted of insulting the Supreme Leader); Ahmad Ghabel Hadi Khamenei (brother of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, advisor to President Mohammad Khatami, hospitalized twice from head injuries beatings by supporters of hard-line leadership, SCC temporarily banned his Hayat-e No newspaper in January 2000) Mohsen Kadivar (sentenced to 18 months in prison by SCC in 1999, for spreading false information about Iran's "sacred system of the Islamic Republic" and of helping enemies of the Islamic revolution; Hasan Yousefi Eshkevari (convicted of "denying and insulting the holy religion of Islam", ‘insulting top-rank officials’ and other charges by the SCC served four years in prison); Clerics executed ("for dependence on the former regime" or activities forbidden by the Islamic republic) on orders of the Clerical Court: Gholam-Hussein Daneshi (accused of collaborating with SAVAK, executed on 13 March 1979), Mehdi Hashemi (opposed to the regime's secret dealings" in the Iran–Contra affair, he was executed in September 1987, officially for sedition, murder, and related charges) Abdolreza Hejazi (a preacher in Tehran who was accused of plotting for a coup shortly after the revolution; was defrocked and executed in 1983); Sentenced to death and were executed for indecent behavior (adultery): Fattallah Omid Najafabadi Mir-Ali Naghi Seyyid Khavari Langeroudi See