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– Iran issues prison sentence to cartoonist in absentia (Demo)

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By HRNJ-Uganda International Media News March 8, 2017

Cartoonist and board member at Cartoonists Rights Network International Nik Kowsar has been sentenced in absentia to four years in prison by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Court.
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