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
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/14/world/middleeast/14tehran.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/16/world/middleeast/16dissident.html
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