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Iranian journalist and political prisoner Akbar Ganji was on hunger strike for nearly 40 days before being transferred, shortly before this magazine went to print, from the infirmary of Iran's Evin prison to a Tehran hospital, apparently for emergency treatment.(The Week ...)(Brief Article)

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Iranian journalist and political prisoner Akbar Ganji was on hunger strike for nearly 40 days before being transferred, shortly before this magazine went to print, from the infirmary of Iran's Evin prison to a Tehran hospital, apparently for emergency treatment. Ganji, one of Iran's most beloved opposition figures and an organizer of the campaign for a referendum on the Iranian constitution, was sentenced to six years in prison in 2001, most notably for a series of articles he wrote implicating senior Islamic Republic officials in the murder of Iranian dissidents and intellectuals in the late 1990s. Observers reported that Ganji was in dire condition before entering the hospital, though ...

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