The Internet Returned to the Crime Scene

For 88 days, the internet blackout in Iran was not only censorship.

It was a curtain.

Behind that curtain, arrests continued, torture continued, executions continued, while millions were cut off from witnessing, documenting, or amplifying what was happening.

Now the regime slightly reopens the connection, like a butcher casually cracking open the slaughterhouse door after the blood has already flooded the floor.

This cartoon is about the role of darkness in repression.

Not every prison needs thick walls.

Sometimes silence itself is the cell.