Posted on 08/10/2005 7:28:38 AM PDT by Wiz
Tehran, 9 August (AKI) - According to an Iranian judiciary spokesman, the jailed Iranian journalist Akbar Ganji is no longer on hunger strike. Speaking at his weekly news conference on Tuesday, the judiciary spokesman Jamal Karimi-Rad said: "He (Ganji) drank water and tea and used sugar cubes before. If it were called a hunger strike, now it had ended."
"His health condition is good and his family are allowed to visit him," the official was quoted as saying on the Iranian news agency, IRNA.
Ganji, who has been on hunger strike for more than 50 days, has been in prison for four years for implicating top officials in a series of political assassinations. He was convicted of jeopardising state security and slandering Iran's spiritual leader, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei.
The journalist began his hunger strike to protest against the treatment of political dissidents in Iran's jails and was released for a few days in order to seek treatment in hospital.
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While I have nothing good to say about Iran, that's the way to handle "hunger strikes".
Yeah, he probably died.
After I posted I wish I hadn't because of who we were talking about. I was thinking about our prisoners of war at the Hilton.
Thank Allah for those Humanitarian Iranians. They are such good people.
Why is he in jail? Oh that's right, he spoke out against those who imprisoned him.
I hope he isn't dead. And that they free him soon.
ping
this is just denied by his wife
http://releaseganji.net
Thanks for the update...
see comment #8 for update
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