Ali Ghazali

Publishing the names of students offered scholarships during Ahmadinejad’s second term, as well as the publication of “the eight million tape”, are the most significant charges against him. He was the Managing Director of the Baztab and Ayandeh Online websites.

<coverage-outsourcing id='535'> He was arrested just a few hours after the publication of an article about a tape , which would later be known as "the eight million tape", on the Baztab Emrooz website. This article claimed that Ahmadinejad only received 16 million votes </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='536'> He was released from Evin Prison shortly after the 2013 presidential elections </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='257'> He was arrested by Intelligence Ministry agents and transferred to Evin Prison </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='1849'> He was released </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='8610'> Branch 1057 of the criminal court 2 of Tehran, responsible for reviewing charges against government employees, headed by judge Heydari, reviewed the case of the publication of the list of scholarship students, and sentenced Ali Ghazali on the charge of “publication of falsehoods in order to incite public opinion” to a fine of 40 million Rials to be given to the government coffers and on the charge of “defamation” he was sentenced to one year incarceration </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='18987'> According to Iran Prison Atlas, quoting an informed source, Mr. Ghazali was arrested by IRGC forces and remained in the prison to begin his sentence of one-year incarceration </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='8611'> Fars news agency reported his arrest and published the court proceedings. The following day, Foad Sadeghi, one of the other administrators of Baztab website was arrested </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='18988'> Amad News reported that he was sentenced to execution on charges such as “nuclear espionage”. In its report, this website cites the pressures from General Nejat, his ex father in law, one of the important figures in the regime’s intelligence community, as the reason behind the issuance of this sentence. A few days later Ensaf News website called this news a “lie” and quoting Mr. Ghazali’s friend, claimed he had been released. What raises the biggest doubt about the news of the charge of “espionage” and its sentence is, how can the intelligence apparatus open a case on the charge of “espionage” and “nuclear espionage” for a person in 2016-2017, who was arrested on publication/journalism charges in 2013 and has been under microscopic surveillance since </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='18989'> Amad News wrote, in a report, that he met a French intelligence agent, on several occasions,”without knowledge of his true identity nor the nature of the job of this member of the French Embassy in Iran”, “in order to collect information about the corruption of the power and wealth lobby”. This news website, in its report, claimed that the arrest of the adolescents on the charge of “espionage” is also related to, and a result of the arrest of Mr. Ghazali </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='19771'> Amad News reported that he has been released </coverage-outsourcing>