Taghi Rahmani ( fa, تقی رحمانی) is an Iranian journalist, writer and

nationalist-religious The Religious-Nationalists (plural form in fa, ملّی‌مذهبی‌ها, Melli-Mazhabi ha, lit=The Nationalist-Religious Ones) or the National-Religious ( fa, ملّی‌مذهبی, Melli-Mazhabi as an adjective) are terms referring to a pol ...

activist.

Shireen Hunter Shireen Tahmaaseb Hunter is an independent scholar. Until 2019, she was a Research Professor at the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (ACMCU) at Georgetown University in Wa ...

describes Rahmani as "a contemporary Iranian

intellectual An intellectual is a person who engages in critical thinking, research, and reflection about the reality of society, and who proposes solutions for the normative problems of society. Coming from the world of culture, either as a creator or a ...

and author of books on religious intellectualism and reason". Between 1981 and 2005, he reportedly was sentenced to a total of 5,000 days in prison. According to

Reporters Without Borders Reporters Without Borders (RWB; french: Reporters sans frontières; RSF) is an international non-profit and non-governmental organization with the stated aim of safeguarding the right to freedom of information. It describes its advocacy as found ...

, he is "Iran’s most frequently jailed journalist" and

Amnesty International Amnesty International (also referred to as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization focused on human rights, with its headquarters in the United Kingdom. The organization says it has more than ten million members and sup ...

has designated him a prisoner of conscience. Rahmani was a senior campaign official for

Mehdi Karroubi Mehdi Karroubi ( fa, مهدی کروبی, Mehdi Karrubi, born 26 September 1937) is an Iranian Shia cleric and Iranian reform movement, reformist politician leading the National Trust Party (Iran), National Trust Party. Following 2009–2010 Iran ...

during

2009 Iranian presidential election Presidential elections were held in Iran on 12 June 2009, with incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad running against three challengers. The next morning the Islamic Republic News Agency, Iran's news agency, announced that with two-thirds of the votes co ...

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Living people 1959 births Iranian journalists Iranian religious-nationalists Amnesty International prisoners of conscience held by Iran Iranian expatriates in France Members of the National Council for Peace {{Iran-politician-stub