Cartoonist Jailed and Flogged… in 1993

Something called The Middle East Research Institute has excerpted a list from a Tunisian weekly compiling a list of free speech abuses by Middle Eastern and Near Eastern countries as well as extremist groups over the last several years. It includes this gem from 1993:

In Iran, cartoonist Manouchehr Karimzadeh is sentenced to 10 years in prison for sketching a soccer player who slightly resembles [Ayatollah] Khomeini. The cartoonist and the editor of the newspaper [that published the cartoon] are flogged. Their [prison] sentences are later reduced.

I'm linking to it just in case anyone thinks that cartoonists being treated poorly in some countries is completely a fluke of post-Danish Cartoons anger.
 
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