# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/akbar-ganji
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:07:56.724Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/akbar-ganji"
name: "Akbar Ganji"
slug: "akbar-ganji"
description: "Akbar Ganji 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 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\". He has been described as \"Iran's best-known political prisoner\"."
tagline: "Iranian journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Akbar_Ganji_in_Chicago.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1960-01-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.94
  momentum:             5.246835443037975
  historical:           15.35339066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.akbarganji.org/"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%83%D8%A8%D8%B1_%D8%BA%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%8A"
    title: "أكبر غانجي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "اکبر گنجی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akbar_Gandschi"
    title: "Akbar Gandschi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akbar_Ganji"
    title: "Akbar Ganji"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akbar_Ganji"
    title: "Akbar Ganji"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akbar_Ganji"
    title: "Akbar Ganji"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%A8%D8%B1_%DA%AF%D9%86%D8%AC%DB%8C"
    title: "اکبر گنجی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akbar_Gandji"
    title: "Akbar Gandji"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%9B%D7%91%D7%A8_%D7%92%D7%A0%D7%92'%D7%99"
    title: "אכבר גנג'י"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akbar_Gangi"
    title: "Akbar Gangi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akbar_Ganji"
    title: "Akbar Ganji"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akbar_Ganji"
    title: "Akbar Ganji"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekber_Genci"
    title: "Ekber Genci"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BA%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%80_%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B6%D1%96"
    title: "Акбар Ганджі"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akbar_Ganji"
    title: "Akbar Ganji"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%98%BF%E5%85%8B%E5%B7%B4%E5%B0%94%C2%B7%E7%94%98%E5%90%89"
    title: "阿克巴尔·甘吉"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%A8%D8%B1_%DA%AF%D9%86%D8%AC%DB%8C"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump