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  • 'Jailed journalist Ganji will die if world fails to react'

    08/05/2005 5:50:13 PM PDT · by F14 Pilot · 4 replies · 352+ views
    Times Online ^ | August 06, 2005 | Ramita Navai in Tehran
    SMUGGLED photographs of Akbar Ganji, Iran’s most famous political prisoner, show him ghostly white and gaunt with sunken eyes. He is close to death after 56 days of a hunger strike. Mr Ganji was rushed from the Evin prison in Tehran to Milad Hospital last week as his health deteriorated. Massoumeh Shafiie, his wife, said doctors have tried to feed him intravenously but he has pulled out the feeding tubes. Mr Ganji, an investigative journalist, was jailed for six years in 2000 on charges of “acting against national security”. Some charges related to an article he wrote linking some of...
  • Can You Keep a Secret? The media silence on Iran.

    08/07/2002 9:24:36 AM PDT · by xsysmgr · 91 replies · 305+ views
    National Review Online ^ | August 7, 2002 | Michael Ledeen
    When I first came to Washington I met what I took for a hopelessly cynical man who asked me to define a secret. I stumbled, and he said that a secret was when you called a press conference and nobody reported what you said. Apparently the media of the entire Western world have applied this standard to the dramatic events in Iran, because on Monday massive demonstrations were held in the country's major cities, from Tehran to Isfahan, Tabriz, Mashad, and others. The regime responded with unprecedented violence. There was widespread street fighting. More than 1,000 people were arrested....