Rastegar Jooybari
Born 1940
Is an Iranian Twelver Shi'a Marja. He has repeatedly been arrested for his opposition against the
current Iranian government, in particular Supreme Leader
Khamenei.
Grand Ayatollah Yasub al-Din Rastgari, accused of criticizing government policies, has been arrested and
detained several times. During his arrest in late February 1996, he was held in incommunicado detention,
reportedly mainly in Tawhid and Evin Prisons in Tehran until July 1996.
In August 1996, he was sentenced to three years imprisonment for having held a mourning ceremony for the
late Grand Ayatollah Shariatmadari. He was sentenced by the Special Clerical Court after a summary trial on
vaguely worded charges, in which he had no access to a lawyer.
Grand Ayatollah Rastgari was released from prison in December 1996, but immediately afterwards was placed
under house arrest in Qom.[4] Rastgari was again arrested on April 27, 2004 and sentenced by the Special
Clerical Court to four years in prison for “insulting Islam” and “causing schism” through his book, The Reality of
Religious Unity. He has reportedly been tortured while in detention and is held incommunicado without access to
his family
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