Akbar Ganji is a human rights activist in Iran and he works on freedom of expression and he does his job very well.

There is a verse [in the Koran] that says God swears by time. Anything you gain in life, you pay for with your time. Time is the most important thing that has been given to man.

Human rights is the fruit of various civilizations.

I have never been convinced throughout my life that one needs to be imitating others. I even tell my daughters not to look at me as a model.

I am the voice of the people in Iran whose voices are silent and whose demands cannot be heard by the rest of the world.

No government can make me wear a veil, no government can force me not to wear it either

Every time I am fearful I think to myself, the reason they do this is to discourage me from doing what I do. Hence, if I discontinue my work I will have succumbed to my fears.