According to a report dated Wednesday, January 11, the Mullah's regime had already executed four people, accused of having taken part in the demonstrations which have shaken the country for four months and the death of Mahsa Amini, a young woman accused by the morality police. to wear the veil badly.

At least 17 others have been sentenced to death since the start of the uprising, said the same day the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, via a press release.

Tehran uses death penalty sentences against demonstrators to frighten the Iranian population and silence protest, which borders on "state murder", he also denounced on Tuesday January 10.

Terror as the only answer to insubordination, this is the message summarized by Le Hic, or Hic, (his real name Hichem Baba Ahmed) in his drawing: as if strangled by its strong men, Iran is taking the shape of a gallows cord.

This Algerian press cartoonist, cartoonist and caricaturist was born in 1969. Today, his cartoons can be found in the Algerian news daily El Watan and in Courrier International.

He was repeatedly sued for his works.

Since 2011, Le Hic has been the editor-in-chief and cartoonist of the comic book magazine BENDIR.

In another charge, the Iranian justice also sentenced to death, Wednesday, January 11, a British-Iranian convicted of spying on behalf of the United Kingdom, according to the body of the Judicial Authority the same day .

Cartooning for Peace is an international network of cartoonists committed to promoting, through the universality of press cartoons, freedom of expression, human rights and mutual respect between populations of different cultures or beliefs.

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