Amir Farshad Ebrahimi ( fa, امیر فرشاد ابراهیمی ) (born August 14, 1975)
is a former member of
Ansar-e Hezbollah
Ansar-e Hezbollah ( fa, انصار حزبالله, lit=Supporters of the Party of God) is a conservative paramilitary organization in Iran. .
Ansar-e Hezbollah used violence against students but Ebrahimi decided, "No, Ansar-e Hezbollah is wrong, you the students are right."
"Confessions"
Ebrahimi appears in a controversial videotape in 2000, apparently confessing to a link between the hardline Iranian political and religious leaders and violent actions of an Iranian group known as
Ansar-e Hezbollah
Ansar-e Hezbollah ( fa, انصار حزبالله, lit=Supporters of the Party of God) is a conservative paramilitary organization in Iran. .
Ebrahimi had previously held close connections to the members of this group and revealed a number of their inside secrets in the video tape. After the circulation of this tape, human rights lawyer and
Nobel Peace Prize
The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Swedish industrialist, inventor and armaments (military weapons and equipment) manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiolo ...
winner
Shirin Ebadi
Shirin Ebadi ( fa, شيرين عبادى, Širin Ebādi; born 21 June 1947) is an Iranian political activist, lawyer, a former judge and human rights activist and founder of Defenders of Human Rights Center in Iran. On 10 October 2003, Ebadi was ...
was accused by an Iranian court to have been involved in making it. She was vindicated and released from prison after a brief period.
Ebrahimi was also sentenced and spent two years in prison.
Identifying paramilitaries
As of 2009 he is identifying members of plain-clothed men who beat up Iranian protesters of the disputed election. Ebrahimi "names and shames those he recognizes on the Web", publishing their names and phone numbers and sometimes even their addresses, "so people in their neighborhood know what they are doing." Some are
Ansar-e Hezbollah
Ansar-e Hezbollah ( fa, انصار حزبالله, lit=Supporters of the Party of God) is a conservative paramilitary organization in Iran. members and former friends.
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Works
On March 27, 2008, wire reports stated that he was in danger of extradition from Turkey
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to Iran, on charges that he "collaborated with peace activist
A peace movement is a social movement which seeks to achieve ideals, such as the ending of a particular war (or wars) or minimizing inter-human violence in a particular place or situation. They are often linked to the goal of achieving world pe ...
s in the flight of Ali Reza Asgari from Iran."War and Piece
See also
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Ansar-e Hezbollah
Ansar-e Hezbollah ( fa, انصار حزبالله, lit=Supporters of the Party of God) is a conservative paramilitary organization in Iran.
References
External links
His weblogBBC report of the confession video tape
Reaction to and summary of the 2000 tape
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Iranian bloggers
Iranian activists
Politicians from Tehran
1975 births
Living people
Ansar-e Hezbollah politicians