The picture drawn by Mahmoud Shokraye of Iranian MP Ahmad Lotfi Ashtiani was deemed insulting after he took offence of the depiction, which led him to be given a sentence of 25 lashes.
Shokraye drew the caricature of the parliamentarian in Nameye Amir, a city newspaper in Arak, the capital of Iran's central province of Markazi.
In the cartoon,...