- Target:
- Free hadi Heydari
- Region:
- Iran
Renowned cartoonist Hadi Heidari who contributes to several reformist newspapers and heads the website Persian cartoon (www.haditoons.com) was arrested in the capital Tehran on the evening of 22 October.
He was among several people arrested while taking part in a religious ceremony in honor of political prisoners, held at the home of Shehaboldin Tabatabai, one of the prisoners close to the reformist party, Participation. Some of them were released the following day but around a dozen others, including Heidari, were moved to Evin prison.
http://cartoon1.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/cartoonist-hadi-heydari/#more-651
Following publication of a cartoon entitled “The Blindfolded Men,” Sharq Newspaper was banned on September 26.
In a concerted effort by 150 Members of the Parliament, state authorities, and clerics, the newspaper was banned a day after the cartoon was published and the cartoonist, Hadi Heydari, was summoned to court. Mehdi Rahmanian, the newspapers manager and license holder, was transferred to Evin Prison.
Those protesting the cartoon state that it is an insult on Iran-Iraq War veterans, but many believe this to be a mere excuse for banning the reformist newspaper.
http://www.iranhumanrights.org/2012/09/shargh/
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