Iran General NewsIranian dissident hospitalised after hunger strike

Iranian dissident hospitalised after hunger strike

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AFP: Jailed dissident Iranian writer Akbar Ganji has been admitted to hospital after being on hunger strike for more
than a month, his wife said on Monday.
Ganji was taken to a hospital outside his Tehran prison on Sunday, the 37th day of his hunger strike, said Massoumeh Shafiie.
AFP

TEHRAN – Jailed dissident Iranian writer Akbar Ganji has been admitted to hospital after being on hunger strike for more than a month, his wife said on Monday.

Ganji was taken to a hospital outside his Tehran prison on Sunday, the 37th day of his hunger strike, said Massoumeh Shafiie.

He was sentenced in 2001 to six years behind bars over articles he wrote linking senior regime officials, including ex-president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and former intelligence minister Ali Fallahian, to the serial murders of several intellectuals and writers.

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