Click here to read PEN’s Press Release. English PEN, Index, Article 19 and guests were delighted to meet Iranian journalist and dissident, Akbar Ganji on July 10, 2006. Mr. Ganji had been released a few months ago after serving a six-year prison sentence in Evin jail in Iran on charges of “acting against national security”.
Links to news articles related to Akbar Ganji’s three-day hunger strike:
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article1173236.ece
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/14/world/middleeast/14tehran.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/16/world/middleeast/16dissident.html
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