About Akbar Ganji

Akbar Ganji is an Iranian investigative journalist and critic of the ruling establishment. He exposed the serial murders of opposition intellectuals in 1998 by members of the Iranian security forces; a collection of his articles on this case was published as Dungeon of Ghosts. This contributed to his arrest in April 2000 and sentence to six years' imprisonment. He was released in March 2006, and has since travelled widely to promote the case for democracy and human rights in Iran.