Cartoon 79: Nowruz 1393

Last week Iranians around the world began their celebration of Nowruz, the Persian New Year. In this cartoon, along with the traditional Haft Sin table, Touka Neyestani has drawn the figure of Gohar Eshghi, the mother of Sattar Beheshti, the blogger who died under torture by his interrogators at Evin Prison, holding a picture of her son. Earlier this month, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton met with Eshghi and other women activists in Iran; officials decried and censored a photograph of their meeting.