Ali Afshari (Persian: علی افشاری; born 1973 in Qazvin) is an Iranian activist who seeks reform in the Islamic Republic.
From 1999 to 2004, he was a member of the Central Council of the Office to Foster Unity National Islamic Student Association (Daftar- Tahkim-e Vahdat).
[3] From 2000 to 2003, Afshari was arrested by the Islamic Republic on four occasions and imprisoned on charges that he was threatening the country's national security through his role in pro-democracy programs on college campuses.
[6] After completing his Master of Science in Industrial Engineering at the Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic) in 2004, Afshari has traveled to Ireland and the United States to divulge his views on the wrongdoings of the Iranian government.
Afshari has published his views in over forty essays and papers, including Roozonline and Gooya news and has been profiled by the BBC,[7] Agence France Presse and The Irish Times.