Akbar Ganji; No one should be imprisoned for expressing an opinion..

The journalist Akbar Ganji has announced that he is going on a hunger strike to protest against his imprisonment. Reporters without borders have previously reported that the journalist health has deteriorated considerably in prison; the organization has also demanded his unconditional release.

In a statement Ganji said; "I protest against my illegal and unjust imprisonment, all the more so because I cannot even pursue my treatment outside Evin prison. I am beginning an unlimited hunger strike this evening. No one should be imprisoned - not even for a second - for expressing an opinion."

Akbar Ganji is seriously ill after spending five years in prison for reporting about the former president and now president candidate Rafsanjanis part in murders of journalists and intellectuals during 1998. He was sentenced to six years in prison.

For more on Akbar Ganji read here here(swedish).