CRN: Mana Neyestani Seeks Asylum

I had no idea much of this had happened, particularly as half the reports a few months ago said that Iranian cartoonist Mana Neyestani was not being released before a trial and likely sentence related to a cartoon that upset members of Iran's Azeri minority back in May, but apparently the cartoonist fled to Dubai in September and is now in Europe seeking formal asylum through the United Nations. It makes me happy to know that he got out before a second stint in jail, this time following a sentence, and I hope his also-jailed editor and his family somehow made it out, too. I also hope the UN does the right thing and grants Neyestani's request.

In another international news story featuring a cartoonist, Amnesty International has just released a report on the Maldives, which includes a section on cartoonist Ahmed Abbas.
 
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