My shattered face and frail body demonstrate the inherent contradictions of a regime in which the concepts of justice and tyranny have been transposed. Whoever sees me today asks me in astonishment: "Is that you? Are you Ganji?"

. . . but my heart will continue to beat for freedom.

Akbar Ganji
in a letter smuggled from a gulag in Iran
where he is in the process of being tortured to death