Hasan Yousefi Eshkevari (Persian: حسن یوسفی اشکوری, born 11 August 1949[1]) is an Iranian cleric, researcher, journalist, reformist and former political prisoner.

He is believed to have been convicted of "acting against national security" in connection with a speech he gave at the conference, "defaming government officials in articles", "starting a campaign against the system", and "denying and insulting the holy religion of Islam".

New charges of 'propaganda against the Islamic Republic', 'insulting top-rank officials', 'spreading lies', were filed against him at the Special Court for the Clergy, in 2002, for which he received a sentence of seven years' imprisonment on 17 October.

[7][8] During the crackdown on protests over the 2009 presidential elections in Iran, Eshkevari fled to Germany to seek political asylum.

[11][12] In 2010, he advocated a secular governmental system in Iran, for which, he suggests, the original draft of the 1979 constitution could serve as a blueprint.