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Free Atena!

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Iranian artist Atena Farghadani has been sentenced to 12+ years in prison for drawing politicians as animals.
Currently there's an open call for artists to #Draw4Atena and demand her release. Here's a small contribution to that campaign.

From her defense speech:

"I believe that if someone chooses art as their subject but does not criticise the issues of their society, they have betrayed themselves, their concience and their society."

"Is it not true that we're a number of families which belong to a united family named society? Or the slogan that all humans are parts of a body made from the same soul? Or the quote that whatever you wish for yourself, wish it for others as well?
Is it my fault that I tried to do what these slogans are saying?"

Read the full speech here on facebook
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