He’s not the first. Babak Zanjani was also on death row.

Akbar Ganji was once our hero for exposing regime killings and we were worried about him every time he went on a food strike in regime’s prisons. Dr. Soroush was called a kafir by clerics for his Quran interpretations, hence making killing him not a “sin”.

But when it mattered most, both echoed regime propaganda. We’ve seen this pattern before. Ganji and Soroush betrayed us—Toomaj may just be the latest scheme.