Hasan Yousefi Eshkevari

Yousefi Eshkevari is a journalist and researcher in Islamic theology and the history of Islam, critical to the theocratic government of Iran. Previously he has worked as the director of the Ali Sheriati Research Centre and has been the editor of the newspaper Iran-e Farda, which was banned in 2000.

In 2000 Yousefi Eshkevari was arrested and imprisoned for “war against Islam” and “apostasy”. He was released in 2005 and stayed as guest writer in Chiusi City of Refuge from 2008 to 2010