YOUNG IRANIAN CARTOONIST SENTENCED TO OVER TWELVE YEARS IN PRISON

A twenty-eight-year-old Iranian artist and activist whose cartoon depicted Iranian leaders as monkeys and cows has been sentenced to over twelve years in prison, according to the Washington Post’s Michael Cavna. As Artforum.com reported earlier, Atena Farghadani’s drawing represented authorities in a recent vote to restrict contraception and ban certain birth-control methods. Sources say the longest that Farghadani can legally be imprisoned is seven years and six months, and that her team is planning an appeal.

She has been convicted of crimes ranging from “insulting members of parliament through paintings” to “spreading propaganda against the system.”