Update on Akbar Ganji

Andrew Sullivan found a report today on Akbar Ganji's worsening condition. Apparently Iranian prisons and hunger strikes are not a good match.

In a telephone interview from Tehran, a former political prisoner who was released temporarily from Evin prison at the end of June, Amir Abbas Fakhravar, told The New York Sun that Mr. Ganji's kidneys had failed and that he was seen yesterday by two fellow inmates in Evin's hospital wing laying unconscious on a floor as two guards tried to prop him up.

This is the plight of freedom itself and nothing less. I really hope this guy pulls through.