Akbar Ganji

Akbar Ganji

Akbar Ganji (Persian: اکبر گنجی , born 31 January 1960) is an Iranian journalist, writer and a former member of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. He has been described as "Iran's preeminent political dissident", and a "wildly popular pro-democracy journalist" who has crossed press censorship "red lines" regularly. A supporter of the Islamic revolution as a youth, he became disenchanted in the mid-1990s and served time in Tehran's Evin Prison from 2001 to 2006, after publishing a series of stories on the murder of dissident authors known as the Chain Murders of Iran. While in prison, he issued a manifesto which established him as the first "prominent dissident, believing Muslim and former revolutionary" to call for a replacement of Iran's theocratic system with "a democracy". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Akbar Ganji is the 141st most popular journalist, the 477th most popular biography from Iran and the most popular Iranian Journalist.

Akbar Ganji is most famous for his investigative journalism and activism against the Iranian government, particularly his critiques of political repression and human rights abuses in Iran. He gained international attention for his imprisonment and subsequent hunger strike, which highlighted issues of free speech and political dissent in the country.