Mana Neyestani At Home For The Week; Still May Face Severe Prison Sentence

A pair of articles from the press arm of Reporters Sans Frontieres here and here shed more light on the current status of Iranian cartoonist Mana Neyestani, jailed since May for publishing a cartoon with a cockraoch speaking Azeri, which led to violent protests among Azerbaijani-Iranians int he country's northwest provinces.

Mehrdad Qassemfar, originally identified as an editor at the Iran publication in Tehran where the cockroach cartoon was published, has since be re-labeled as a journalist. Both Qassemfar and Neyestani are on a week's leave with their families, which explains reports from earlier this summer that some sort of parole was potentially in the offing for the cartoonist. The pair are two of 12 journalists and bloggers in Iranian prisons or under their control currently being monitored by RSF. It looks like there have been been positive and negative outcomes to recent individual cases, with a further negative that bannings from the practices of journalism for a period of time has been one of the penalties levied against journalists convicted.
 
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