Dec. 10 (UPI) — Iranian cartoonist and activist Atena Farghadani, jailed in Iran’s infamous Evin prison to serve a six-year sentence over her work, had her sentence reduced on appeal to eight months and was released, according to her lawyer and human rights organizations and advocates.
Farghadani received a five-year sentence for insulting religious sanctities and a one-year sentence for spreading propaganda against the state in June, one month after she was detained in what the Center for Human Rights in Iran described as an escalating crack down on women’s rights and dissent in the Middle Eastern Country.
Her attorney, Mohammad Moghimi, announced her release from the notorious Evin Prison on X on Tuesday.
A statement on an Instagram account associated with Farghadani states that her charge of insulting religious sanctities was acquitted while her second charge over her publication of a cartoon entitled Class Inequality was reduced from a year to eight months…