In a free environment humour is the gate to peoples heart
In dictatorships it is the biggest weapon against the opressors
And the fastest path to hell on earth
Peace to the huts, Fire for the palaces!
Mana Neyestani (born 1973, in Tehran is an Iranian cartoonist and illustrator for economic, intellectual, political, cultural, and professional magazines.
Neyestani is of Iranian Azerbajani ethnicity. Riots erupted by ethnic Azerbaijanis in Iran when they took offense to a Neyestani cartoon published in the children’s section of the 12 May 2006 supplement of Iran, a government-run newspaper. The cartoon depicted a cockroach responding in Azerbaijani. Neyestani, along with Mehrdad Ghasemfar, the editor-in-chief of Iran, were arrested by government officials and the newspaper was closed down following the riots
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