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# Akbar Ganji's 2nd letter to the free people of the world !
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/18439/
- Published: 2005-07-15T14:07:55.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:33:53.000Z
- Author: openDemocracy Supporters
- Tags: #en, #Migrated, #Import 2026-04-09 18:15

Akbar Ganji’s second letter has been smuggled out just a few days ago and here is a translation of his powerful letter explaining why he is on hunger strike (thanks to [Free Ganji website](http://freeganji.blogspot.com/2005/07/second-letter-to-free-peop%5F112140007861549830.html?ref=opendemocracy.net)).

**This candle is dying out, but not his voice!**

Today, Sunday July 9, 2005 \[Tehran time\] exactly 30 days have passed since I started my hunger strike. In two phases of hunger strike (11 days in late May, and 30 days since June 11) my weight has reduced from 77kg to 55kg, which is a loss of 22kg in 41 days of hunger strike. Many inside and outside the country ask why I have staged a hunger strike and why I am trying to reach legitimate ends through self-destruction. Is it not true that practical rationality demands that the ends and the means to those ends be in proportion with each other? Is it not true that theoretic rationality demands that for all claims (opinions and beliefs) suitable reasons should be offered? Is my action consistent with practical and theoretic rationality? Am I not considered a madman by intellectuals and liberals and human rights defenders? Here I shall try, despite the extreme physical weakness that has completely worn me out, to share my views clearly with everyone.

Please go on [Free Ganji website](http://freeganji.blogspot.com/2005/07/second-letter-to-free-peop%5F112140007861549830.html?ref=opendemocracy.net) to read the complete letter. update: [Free Ganji](http://freeganji.blogspot.com/2005/07/second-letter-to-free-people-of-world.html?ref=opendemocracy.net)