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May 15, 2006
Nik Kowsar Sentenced in Absentia
On his blog last week, Daryl Cagle reported that Iranian cartoonist Nik Kowsar -- a guest speaker at the 2001 AAEC convention, and currently living in exile in Canada -- has been sentenced by an Iranian court for his cartoons.
Cagle wrote: "My buddy, Nik Kowsar, the Iranian cartoonist who fled to exile in Canada, has just been sentenced in absentia to four months in prison for the crimes of: "insulting Mohammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdi head of Imam Khomeini Training Institute, insulting Ali Larijani, Head of IRIB (Iranian Official Radio & TV), and other dignities and high ranking clergy and officials of the establishment."
On the Net:
http://www.cagle.com/news/blog/
http://rooznamenegar.ir/en/2006/04/18/cartoonist_nikahang_kowsar_has.shtml