World Association of Newspapers' Golden Pen of Freedom Award, Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders, Milton Friedman Prize, John Humphrey Freedom Award
Military career
Service/branch
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
Years of service
1980–1984
Akbar Ganji (Persian: اکبر گنجیEnglish pronunciationⓘ, born 31 January 1960 in Tehran)[2][3] is an Iranian journalist, writer and a former member of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.[4] He has been described as "Iran's preeminent political dissident",[5] 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.[6] 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".[7] He has been described as "Iran's best-known political prisoner".[8][9]
Having been named honorary citizen of many European cities and awarded distinctions for his writing and civil,[10] Ganji has won several international awards for his work, including the World Association of Newspapers' Golden Pen of Freedom Award,[11] Canadian Journalists for Free Expression's International Press Freedom Award, the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders,[12] the Cato Institute Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty and the John Humphrey Freedom Award.
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^"Biography: Akbar Ganji". Cato Institute. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
^Kahn, Paul W. (23 December 2008). "Akbar Ganji in conversation with Charles Taylor". Ssrc.org. Archived from the original on 6 May 2009. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
^"Iranian dissident freed from jail". BBC News. 18 March 2006.
^Ebadi, Shirin, Iran Awakening, by Shirin Ebadi with Azadeh Moaveni, Random House, New York, 2006, p.193
^"Iranian Political Prisoner on Hunger Strike Nears Death". NPR. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
^"A top dissident refuses to give in". The Economist. 8 December 2005. ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
^"Katajun Amirpur, Akbar Ganji: Beggars of the state". signandsight. 18 July 2006. Retrieved 30 July 2013.
^"Prominent Iranian Journalist Receives Press Freedom Award in Moscow". Payvand. 5 June 2006. Archived from the original on 22 May 2018. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
^Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders Archived 29 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine
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