Amir Farshad Ebrahimi ( Persian : امیر فرشاد ابراهیمی ) (born August 14, 1975) is a founding and former member of hard-line pressure group Ansar-e Hezbollah , a former member of the Basij militia, and an Iranian journalist. 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.