Iranians “love life. We love residing, and we don’t need to die,” Hossein Ronaghi advised us in April. “However we’ve chosen freedom, and which may be the fee that one has to pay for freedom.” Mr. Ronaghi, 37, is now unreachable in Iran’s infamous Evin Jail, and the information isn’t good.

Mr. Ronaghi is an Iranian blogger and free-speech activist, and in a courageous op-ed for these pages a yr in the past he described Iran as “a rustic of repression, censorship and violence.”