Iranian authorities are gearing up to put a 28-year-old cartoonist on trial for violating a law against political expression, according to reports.
Atena Farghandani was arrested last year after she drew a political cartoon expressing outrage over the restriction of birth control, according to the Clarion Project.
"She was taken to Gharchak prison for four months where she said she was beaten and interrogated for up to nine hours a day," according to the report.
"During a brief release in December, she posted a video in Persian detailing her inhumane treatment and was rearrested," Clarion added. Close to two months later, Farghandani went on a hunger strike and suffered a heart attack. She has been kept in solitary confinement since that time.
