A jailed Iranian activist on hunger strike in protest at the detention of his writer wife has taken social media by storm.
The hashtag #SaveArash topped Twitter trending on Friday as fellow Iranians and others showed solidarity with Arash Sadeghi.
He is said to be in a ‘very serious’ condition after almost 70 days without food.
The activist is serving a 19 year sentence for charges including “gathering and colluding with intent to harm national security”.
Over half a million a Twitter users have joined the #saveArash campaign to free Iranian activist Arash Sadeghi. pic.twitter.com/cik0P3CPBB— Impact Iran (@impactiran) 30 décembre 2016
His wife, Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee, is serving a six-year jail term, notably for “insulting Islamic sanctities” after writing an unpublished book about a young woman enraged by stoning who burns a copy of the Koran.
