Iranian dies after hunger strike. ⇒
31 July 2006, lunch time
I wonder how many students remain locked up in jails in Iran. Presumably this fellow was jailed for taking part in the large 1999 student uprising. (If you get the chance, be sure to read the essay God Mode by Luke Mitchell in this month's Harpers, which touches on the subject of hunger strikes. If the prison was run by American's they would have shoved a tube down the guys throat and force fed him, thereby saving his life and preventing an "an act of asymmetric warfare".)
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