Dissident Iranian journalist Akbar Ganji has rematerialized, showing up at his prison gates with a bag of medicines and the will to keep raising hell.

An excerpt from the BBC story:

Mr Ganji was given temporary medical leave from jail at the end of last month; the authorities said he should have returned to prison on Wednesday.

He was jailed in 2001 for linking some senior figures in Iran to killings of political dissidents in the 1990s.

Mr Ganji returned to the prison alone on Saturday, carrying a hold-all and a bag of medicines, Reuters news agency reported.

"Now that I have gone back to prison, I will resume my hunger strike," he said. "All political prisoners must be freed."