Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Iran Arrests Cartoonist as Crackdown on Free Expression Goes On

 Hadi Heidari

Reuters, 17/11 14:39 CET

DUBAI (Reuters) – Iranian authorities have arrested a cartoonist and sent him to prison to complete a suspended jail sentence, his lawyer said on Tuesday, joining a growing list of journalists, artists and activists detained on security charges.

Hadi Heidari, a cartoonist at the Shahrvand newspaper, was arrested on Monday and sent to Tehran’s Evin prison, his lawyer told Reuters in a telephone interview from Tehran.

“He was convicted two years ago for his cartoons and was sentenced to one year in jail. The authorities had a different interpretation of his cartoons than he had,” the lawyer, Saleh Nikbakht, said. Heidari had served about a month of the original sentence, Nikbakht said. 

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Source: Euronews

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