Kafka in Tehran

• Autores: Chris Ip
• Localización: Columbia Journalism Review, ISSN-e 0010-194X, Vol. 53, Nº. 4, 2015, págs. 5-10
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Ip features comic-book artist Mana Neyestani's An Iranian Metamorphosis showing how the Iranian government coerces its press, and the Kafkaesque absurdities that can befall a journalist who runs afoul of that authority. One of Iran's best-known political cartoonists, Neyestani, 41, was jailed in 2006 for a comic in a children's section of a newspaper that showed a cockroach speaking Azeri, the language of Iran's Azerbaijani minority. The long-aggrieved Azeri thought Neyestani was comparing them to cockroaches, and riots ensued. Neyestani and his editor ended up in Tehran's infamous Evin prison. When Neyestani was granted leave, he fled. After bouncing around from Dubai to Turkey, Malaysia to China, he and his wife landed in Paris, where they live today.