Akbar Ganji

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Full Name	Akbar Ganji
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	Jan 31, 1960(1960-01-31)
Age	64
Birthplace	Qazvin
Country	Iran
Birth City	Qazvin
Horoscope	Aquarius

Akbar Ganji Biography

Akbar Ganji is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on January 31, 1960 in Qazvin, Qazvin, Iran. Akbar Ganji (Persian: اکبر گنجی ‎ English pronunciation (help ·info ) , born 31 January 1960 in Tehran) is an Iranian journalist and writer. 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”.

Collections of his articles appeared in books, notably, The Dungeon of Ghosts and The Red Eminence And The Grey Eminences (Alijenob Sorkhpoosh va Alijenob-e Khakestari (2000)) focusing on the involvement of the former President of Iran, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, and his Minister of Intelligence, Ali Fallahian, in the chain murders. The Red Eminence and the Grey Eminences has been described by the Washington Post newspaper in the US as “the Iranian equivalent of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago”. The one volume of his writings to appear in English translation is The Road to Democracy in Iran (MIT Press, April 2008).

Ganji’s writings in prison were smuggled out and widely distributed, especially on the web. Most notably he wrote a Republican Manifesto in six chapters in March 2002, laying out the basis of his proposal for a fully- fledged democratic republic for Iran. In particular he argued that all elections in the Islamic Republic of Iran must be boycotted. He later wrote a second book of his Republican Manifesto in May 2005, ahead of the ninth Presidential elections in Iran, specifically arguing for a complete boycott of the presidential elections.

Ganji opposed the United States 2003 invasion of Iraq and subsequent occupation.

Ganji took part in a conference in Berlin held by the Heinrich Boell Foundation under the title “Iran after the elections” held in the wake of the Majlis elections of February 2000 which resulted in a huge victory by reformist candidates. The gathering was termed “anti-Islamic” and “anti- revolutionary” by Iranian state TV, IRIB, which broadcast part of the conference on 18 April 2000. Returning to Iran from the conference he was arrested on 22 April 2000, accused of having “damaged national security.” Found guilty, in January 2001 he was sentenced to ten years followed by five years internal exile, which meant he would be kept in a specific city other than Tehran and could not leave the country. On 15 May 2001 an appeal court reduced his 10-year sentence to six months and overturned his additional sentence of five years’ internal exile. However, the Tehran prosecutor, challenged the appeal court decision and brought new charges against him in connection with newspaper articles he had written prior to April 2000, and his possession of photocopies of foreign newspapers. On 16 July 2001 he was sentenced to six years imprisonment on charges of “collecting confidential information harmful to national security and spreading propaganda against the Islamic system”.

Akbar Ganji Net Worth

Akbar Ganji is one of the richest Journalist from Iran. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Akbar Ganji 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

In 1994–5 Ganji became disenchanted with the government. “I saw a fascism and political tyranny emerging in Iran. Anyone who asked questions was branded ‘anti-revolutionary’ and ‘against Iran’.” Ganji quit the Guard to become an investigative journalist. Shortly thereafter he gained fame and ran afoul of the authorities by “exposing the role of high officials in sanctioning the murder of liberal dissidents”.

Ganji has written extensively as a journalist in a series of reformist newspapers, many of which were shut down by the Judiciary of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Possibly Ganji’s most famous work was a series of articles in Saeed Hajjarian’s Sobh Emrouz daily about the 1998 murders of dissident authors known as the Chain Murders of Iran. Akbar Ganji referred to the perpetrators of the killings with code names such as “Excellency Red Garmented” and their “Excellencies Gray” and the “Master Key”.

In December 2000, after his arrest (see below), Akbar Ganji announced the “Master Key” to the chain murders was former Intelligence Minister Hojjatoleslam Ali Fallahian. He “also denounced by name some senior clerics, including Ayatollah Mohammad Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi for having encouraged or issued fatwas, or religious orders for the assassinations”. Conservatives have attacked Ganji and denied his claim.

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In June 2006 Ganji left Iran. Since then he has been writing and giving talks in Europe and North America, speaking out for the movement for democracy in Iran, and against any U.S. military attack on his country.

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In April 2008, Ganji’s first book in English appeared from Boston Review Books/MIT Press: The Road to Democracy in Iran, with an introduction by Joshua Cohen and Abbas Milani.