[1] Quitting Ansar-e Hezbollah after its involvement in the attack on students in 1999, he was imprisoned in Iran, fled to Turkey and then Germany, where as of 2009 he worked to publicly identify members of plain-clothed men who beat up Iranian protesters of the disputed election.

[3] After the war, believing their sacrifice had given them the right to make "some demands", he and other veterans founded the Ansar-e Hezbollah (Supporters of the Party of God), to serve as guardians of the Islamic revolution, defending it from corruption and Western influence.

During this imprisonment, Ebrahimi says he was "physically and psychologically tortured", kept in solitary confinement in "a small coffin-sized cell", and left with injuries including a broken chin and rib.

In a number of inflammatory stories, they claimed Ebrahimi was mentally unstable and that Ebadi and another lawyer Rohami had manipulated him into testifying, and in any case confession blemished the Islamic revolution.

[4] Circa 29 September 2000, Ebadi and Rohami were sentenced to five years in jail and suspension of their law licenses for sending Ebrahimi's videotaped deposition to President Khatami.