A politcal cartoonist in Iran has been sentenced to 12 years in prison because of her depiction of parliament in the country. Apparently, Atena Farghadani has already been in prison for nearly a year, but the sentence has just been handed down. She’s been found guilty of “insulting members of parliament through painting and insulting the Iranian supreme leader.
Cenk Uygur (The Young Turks) and Ana Kasperian (The Point) break it down. Tell us what you think in the comments below.
Atena Farghadani, has just been sentenced for, in effect, drawing Iranian leaders as monkeys and cows. Given the absurd ruling, perhaps she should have drawn the rule of draconian law, and her legal proceedings, as a kangaroo court instead.
Farghadani, a 28-year-old Iranian artist and activist, rendered visual judgment last year, lampooning members of her nation’s parliament over their vote to restrict contraception and ban certain birth-control methods — just one of her works satirizing the government. Tehran’s Revolutionary Court has now announced that it is rendering its own brand of judgment.
Farghadani has been sentenced to 12 years and nine months in an Iranian prison, according to the International Campaign for Human Rights and the Northern Virginia-based Cartoonists Rights Network International (CRNI). According to some sources, the longest that she can legally be imprisoned is seven years and six months, and an appeal is said to be planned.
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