Another Sharansky?!?

Natan Sharansky's opus "The Case for Democracy" is an awesome must read. Is Akbar Ganji of the same cloth?A great read from Amir Taheri,an acclaimed Iranian historian and writer:

"by Amir Taheri

New York Post July 22, 2005

July 22, 2005 -- JUST over a month ago, Sa'id Mortazavi, the Islamic revolutionary prosecutor in Tehran, agreed to receive the wife of one of the many political prisoners languishing in his jails. The visitor wanted Mortazavi to know that her husband, 46-year-old dissident Akbar Ganji, then in the third week of a hunger strike, was nearing death.
"What is all the fuss about?" Mortazavi snapped at Ganji's wife. "Who cares if Ganji dies? Each day many prisoners die in our jails."
Now, however, it seems that many people care about Ganji's fate because "the fuss" about his imprisonment and alleged torture has been transformed into a debate about the future of the Khomeinist system. "