Hadi Heidari Released From Prison
Rob Tornoe has received word from a credible source that Iranian cartoonist and cartoon web site owner Hadi Heidari has been released from prison. Heidari has been arrest in October during his participation in a ceremony honoring recently-taken political prisoners. His wife, a journalist, was also arrested several days later. Heidari was a high-profile prisoner among 100 or so journalists taken into custody over a few-week period; reports say he was held in the famous political prisoner ring of Tehran's notorious Evin prison.