Journal Contributor Hossein Ronaghi Suffers in Iran

Iranians “love life. We love living, and we don’t want to die,” Hossein Ronaghi told us in April. “But we’ve chosen freedom, and that may be the cost that one has to pay for freedom.” Mr. Ronaghi, 37, is now unreachable in Iran’s notorious Evin Prison, and the news isn’t good.

Mr. Ronaghi is an Iranian blogger and free-speech activist, and in a brave op-ed for these pages a year ago he described Iran as “a country of repression, censorship and violence.”