Young cartoonist and civil activist Atena Farghadani, who has been recently released from Evin Prison, has drawn a new cartoon of her fellow inmates.
In her poetic essay about them, she wrote in part:
“Lines make a new miracle again, as they remember friends who have been incarcerated in their lasting anonymity without being praised. They neither had fame, nor an enemy or any rival. They challenged themselves to remain in only one chain, the chain of “humanity”…
I close my eyes. Their faces come into my mind… My fingers embrace a wounded pencil, this time even firmer than before, and the pencil starts dancing on the paper.…
“I hear their voices filling my ear as they quietly sang with hope to bid me farewell in the last moment… But their voices were firm as they sang the anthem of ‘my elementary school pal’… And I just kissed them as I was leaving my nameless friends in Evin Prison…. Maryam Naghash Zargaran, Afarin Chitsaz, Maryam Akbari Monfared, Fahimeh Arafi, Reyhaneh Haj Ibrahim, Zahra Zehtabchi, Ziba Poor Habib, and Sedigheh Moradi…”
