Mahmoud Shokraye: Cartoonist's 25-lashes for drawing cartoon

Conviction blasted as brutal by colleagues

ANI: Cartoonists have condemned the conviction of an Iranian colleague, who was sentenced to 25 lashes for drawing a caricature picture of a local MP. The picture drawn by Mahmoud Shokraye of Iranian MP Ahmad Lotfi Ashtiani was deemed insulting after he took offence of the depiction, which led him to be convicted with the brutal punishment. Shokraye drew the caricature of the parliamentarian in 'Nameye Amir', a city newspaper in Arak, the capital of Iran's central province of Markazi >>>


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Roozbeh_Gilani

shame, shame, shame...

by Roozbeh_Gilani on Fri May 11, 2012 09:27 PM PDT

what has become of our motherland? A man is being whipped for daring to draw a picture of a member of this sham of "parliament" of this fascist islamist dictatorship. Another young man has been sentenced to death, with a price of $100,000 on his head for simply singing a song, poking fun at the most corrupt and reactionary religious cult ever existed in our beloved motherland.... 

"Personal business must yield to collective interest."


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Azarbanoo

Islamists are only great in violence against others

by Azarbanoo on Fri May 11, 2012 09:01 AM PDT

whether by harressing, stoning, Lashing, killing.  They cannot tolerate anything.


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