Iranian MP Withdraws Lashing-Worthy Complaint Vs. Cartoonist

According to a smattering of wire-driven stories this morning, Iranian politician Ahmad Lotfi Ashtiani has withdrawn his complaint against cartoonist Mahmoud Shokraye that after a conviction led to the artist being condemned to 25 lashes. This was an important story not only for the barbarism of some cartoonist getting flogged for daring to show someone in a football uniform, and not just because a politician filing suit against a cartoonist in the district he represents is an awful thing from a lot of legal protection standpoints, but also because it would serve as precedent to extend Iran's kid-gloves treatment of religious figures to political ones.

With the complaint withdrawn, it's expected that Shokraye will avoid the lash entirely, which is good news all by itself.
 
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