Akbar Ganji
Akbar Ganji was born on January 31, 1960. See ranking, bio blurb, and everyone else born that day.
About 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…