Missed It: Iranian Hadi Heidari Arrested

According to a report at Reporters Sans Frontieres caught by Alan Gardner at Daily Cartoonist, Iranian cartoonist Hadi Heidari was arrested late last week and is currently being held in Tehran's notorious political prisoner holding facility Evin prison.

Heidari runs the web site linked to above, contributes to several newspapers firmly in the political reform camp and was recently cultural editor at the banned newspaper Etemad-e Melli. A number of that publication's contributors are also in prison. RSF says that Heidari was picked up during a religious ceremony honoring political prisoners in the home of one such prisoner. Many of those picked up have since been released.

Heidari was born in 1970; a gallery of his work can be seen here.
 
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