Iran: MP withdraws complaint against cartoonist after outcry
15 May 2012A sentence handed to an Iranian cartoonist may be quashed after the MP who brought the case withdrew his complaint. Mahmoud Shokraye faced 25 lashes after local conservative MP Ahmad Lotfi Ashtiani took offence at a caricature the artist had drawn. Shokraye was found guilty of insulting Ashtiani at a media law court in Arak last week. The sentence caused outcry internationally and within Iran, forcing the MP to withdraw his complaint.
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Tags: Ahmad Lotfi Ashtiani, art censorship, cartoon, free expression, Iran, Mahmoud Shokraye, politics, Satire
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