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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4213818.stm
Sunday, 4 September 2005,

Iran dissident sent back to jail

Iranian dissident journalist Akbar Ganji has been sent back to jail after leaving hospital, where he was recovering from a hunger strike.

Iran's Justice Minister Jamal Karimirad said Ganji was well enough to return to jail, state news agency Irna reports.

Ganji began fasting in June to protest at his imprisonment. In July, he went to hospital as his health worsened.

He was jailed in 2000 for writing a series of articles linking top Iranian officials to the murder of dissidents.

"Akbar Ganji was released from hospital yesterday and returned to the prison," Mr Karimirad said on Sunday.

An Iranian prison official quoted by the country's student news agency, ISNA, said Ganji was back in Tehran's Evin prison to serve out the remainder of his sentence - a period of roughly one year.

'Betrayal'

Ganji ended his hunger strike last month while he was in hospital.

His wife, Massoumeh Shafie, told the BBC her husband ended his fast after receiving assurances that he would not be sent back to jail.

She accused the Iranian authorities of betraying him.

Ganji's lawyer, the Nobel prize-winner Shirin Ebadi, is quoted by the Reuters news agency as saying her client's release is long overdue, as he has served almost all his six-year term and ought to have received parole.
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The regime promised to release Ganji - They lied

Iran Press News: Translation by Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzzi thru RCI

Akbar Ganji's wife, Massoumeh Shafii, in a radio interview called the authorities of the Islamic Republic of Iran “Infamous and Shameless Charlatans”; she said hopelessly: “the judiciary officials acted in contradiction to the agreement we arrived at together.” Shafii explained: “The regime actively manipulated my family into convincing Akbar to discontinue his hunger strike; they had also struck a deal with us, demanding that I refrain from any further interviews or public statements and they had promised that Mortazavi (pint-size Tehran prosecutor-general known for killing Zahra Kazemi among others) would also stop issuing his counterfeit reports.”

Shafii said: “The regime's authorities had promised Ganji that with the various conditions in place and his hunger strike terminated, that he would be handed his release orders within 10 days; however as usual, the so-called Gentlemen, including Mortazavi conned us.”

Banafsheh has been doing a great job translating these Persian news reports that are typically missed by the mainstream media.
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