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Akbar Ganji (Persian: اکبر گنجی English pronunciation ⓘ, born 31 January 1960 in Tehran) [2] [3] is an Iranian journalist, writer and a former member of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. [4]
Biography. Only a year after publishing a collection of his newspaper articles entitled Dungeon of Ghosts (1999) Akbar Ganji, a former member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps turned investigative journalist, had become Iran’s public enemy number one.
Akbar Ganji is considered Iran’s leading investigative journalist. He is also the author of the best-selling book Dungeon of Ghosts , a collection of Ganji’s newspaper articles published in early 2000, in which he implicated the former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and other leading conservative figures in the “serial murders” of ...
Jan 7, 2013 · Akbar Ganji, Iran’s most prominent political dissident, is a well-known journalist, author and former Revolutionary Guard turned activist. He spent six years in Tehran’s infamous Evin prison, where he undertook a hunger strike and produced a series of influential political manifestos and open letters calling for the secularization of Iran ...
Jul 28, 2006 · Akbar Ganji, a prominent Iranian dissident and journalist who spent six years in prison, is on tour in Europe and the United States, where he has won numerous human rights awards.
Akbar Ganji is one of Iran’s leading political dissidents and has received over a dozen human rights awards for his efforts. Imprisoned in Iran until 2006, he is author of one book in English, The Road to Democracy in Iran, which lays out a strategy for a nonviolent transition to democracy in Iran.
Akbar Ganji 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.
