Ahmad Ghabel (Persian: احمد قابل) was an Iranian Hojjatoleslam Shia Muslim cleric, theologian, seminary lecturer, researcher, and author.

[1] He was a follower of the dissident cleric Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri and was detained several times by the Iranian government.

[citation needed] Ghabel has issued a fatwa about hijab or head and neck covering for Muslim women.

According to kaleme, a reformist website, he was freed on bail after 170 days in jail but was then re-arrested in the summer of 2010 for exposing "secret mass executions at Vakilabad Prison in Mashhad and his criticism of the Supreme Leader,".

[4] On December 14, 2010, he was convicted of working against the ruling system and insulting the country's supreme leader, and was sentenced to 20 months in jail, and was given 20 days to appeal.