A Daily Briefing on Iran: Wednesday's Daily Briefing on Iran

DoctorZin reports, 7.20.2005:

Family visits jailed Iranian Ganji in hospital

IranMania:

A member of the committee following up the condition of Akbar Ganji said Ganji’s family visited him at Milad Hospital.

Issa Saharkhiz also told IRNA: “After the original ban was lifted, Ganji’s family managed to visit him at the hospital at 22:30 on Monday.“ ...

Saharkhiz noted that on Sunday night Ganji was in critical condition and he was transferred to Milad Hospital from Evin Prison. “When Ganji’s family visited him, he was being fed intravenously,“ he said. READ MORE

Plus two other important updates:

Releaseganji.net published an interview with Masoumeh Shafiei, Akbar Ganji's wife.
Eli Lake, The NY Sun quoted former Soviet political prisoner, Natan Sharansky, as saying that the American government should make the fate of the hunger striking dissident journalist Akbar Ganji "a test case" in its relationship with the Iranian regime.

Here are a few other news items you may have missed.

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Iran Focus reported that more than 50,000 workers took to the streets of cities across Iran.
Dan Darling, The Weekly Standard exposed how one of Saddam's closest Baath party aides came to be an ally of militant Islamists.
Iran Press News reported on Syrian leader's surprise visit to Tehran described as vital, to meet with Iran's leaders.
Roozonline took a look at another prison in Iran and the political prisoners forgotten there.
Roozonline quoted outgoing President Mohammad Khatami as saying; It is no honor after twenty five years to pretend that we are like the Taliban and Al Qaeda.
The Moscow Times reported that investigators will probe former Nuclear Power Minister Yevgeny Adamov for his possible role in delays at the controversial nuclear power plant that Russia is building in Iran.
Michael Ledeen, National Review speaking about the London bombings he said, The evil can't be explained by economic misery, or social alienation, or even by the doctrines adopted by the terrorists. The problem lies within us.