- Amir Farshad Ebrahimi
Amir Farshad Ebrahimi (PerB| امیر فرشاد ابراهیمی ) (born
August 14 ,1975 ) is a former member ofQuds Force ofArmy of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution and is currently a peace andhuman rights activist living inGermany .Paramilitary career
Born in the
Gholhak district ofTehran , he joinedBasij at the age of 12 and fought in theIran–Iraq War . After graduation fromAlborz High School , he joined the Qods special forces, one of the five forces ofSepah , and graduated from the Imam Ali military school of the Qods with a major in psychological warfare engineering.He was among the first series of Sepah officers who were sent toNorth Korea .Media career
Ebrahimi also got a bachelor of Fine Arts in 1997 with a cinema major.
He was the media attaché of the Iranian embassy in
Beirut, Lebanon from 1997 to 1998. After coming back fromLebanon , he went to the law school and got his Master Degree inInternational Law fromTehran University in 2002. He received a Doctoral Degree In Human Rights FromMiddle East Technical University ,Ankara ,Turkey in May 2006."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 .Dr. 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 winnerShirin Ebadi was accused by an Iranian court to have been involved in making it. She was vindicated and released from prison after a brief period.Dr. Ebrahimi was also sentenced and spent two years in prison. [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/948906.stm BBC News | MIDDLE EAST | Conviction of Iranian lawyers condemned ] ]
Works
He has written two books, "From Sarband to Blindfold" and "Republic of Ghosts," both in Persian, which were banned in Iran after publicationFact|date=April 2008. As of February, 2006, he is living in Germany and writing his memoirs.
On
March 27 ,2008 , wire reports [NewsMax [http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/ebrahimi_turkey_iran/2008/03/27/83602.html] Human Rights Activist Arrested In Turkey (retrieved 27 March 2008)] stated that he was in danger of extradition fromTurkey to Iran, on charges that he "collaborated withpeace Activist's in the flight ofAli Reza Asgari from Iran." [War and Piece [http://www.warandpiece.com/blogdirs/007220.html] ] His participation in several other events that have embarrassedIran -- including unconfirmed reports that he provided intelligence on Iran's nuclear weapons program to theUnited States -- raise the likelihood that he will be imprisoned and/or executed if sent to Iran.References
External links
*fa icon [http://www.goftaniha.org His weblog]
* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/97506548@N00/ His photos in Flickr]
* [http://behnoud.com/articles/harsh.htm Masoud Behnoud article about Farshad Ebrahimi's letter to the former president Khatami]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/948906.stm BBC report of the confession video tape]
*fa icon [http://www.mihan.net/59/mihan-59-06-01.htm His video taped confession transcript]
* [http://listserv.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0008&L=justwatch-l&D=1&O=D&F=P&S=&P=6570 Reaction to and summary of the 2000 tape]
*http://www.shiachat.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=9834
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