According to a message posted on 7 December on the Instagram account of the author, who has been detained since April, her six-year prison sentence has been reduced to eight months after she was acquitted of one of the charges. "Atena Farghdani, a political prisoner who was arrested in Farvardin* 1403 (2024) and
On Saturday 13 April 2024, Tehran-based cartoonist, painter and children's rights activist Atena Farghadani was violently arrested by security forces and taken to Evin prison for pasting one of her drawings on a wall. His trial was delayed, but the sentence is now known, as can be read in different media. This has
Tension' in the Middle East. Cartoon of 14/04/2024 in CTXT TR: "I don't understand how it has come to this". The "tension" in the Middle East varies in severity depending on who is telling you about it. Sometimes it is the prelude to an imminent third world war and sometimes it is a
On Saturday 13 April 2024, Atena Farghadani, a Tehran-based cartoonist, painter and children's rights activist, was violently arrested by security forces and taken to Evin Prison. This prison is where the Iranian government often imprisons artists, academics, activists, journalists and other dissident intellectuals, and is nicknamed "Evin University". Farghadani was reportedly arrested for
Farghadani in a November 2017 photo / Instagram Painter and cartoonist Atena Farghadani has been re-imprisoned in Iran after refusing to accept bail after being charged with"disturbing public order". According to her lawyer, she was summoned to Evin prison court on 8 June. She refused to accept on the grounds that she had
