"Thankfully his condition is better than before ... He has recently broken his hunger strike," he said. "It seems that this was due to the requests made by other people for him to end his hunger strike."
Ganji's plight has provoked comments of outrage and concern from the United States, the European Union and numerous human rights groups.
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