TEHRAN (Reuters) โ€“ Dissident Iranian journalist Akbar Ganji has broken his eight-week-old hunger strike after calls by family and friends concerned about his deteriorating health, a judiciary spokesman said on Tuesday.
โ€œThankfully his condition is better than before โ€ฆ He has recently broken his hunger strike,โ€ he said. โ€œIt seems that this was due to the requests made by other people for him to end his hunger strike.โ€