- Excerpt from report by Iranian Mehr news agency -
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- Tehran, 23 July: The judging ceremony for the international
cartoon competition on the subject of the Holocaust was held yesterday,
in the presence of Messrs Habib Sadeqi, Mohammad Hoseyn Nirumand, Mas'ud
Shoja'i-Tabataba'i, Rahim Baqqal-Asghari and Farid Mortazavi, in Tehran's
Contemporary Arts Museum.
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- According to the public relations office of Iran's House
of Cartoons, from the 5,119 works received from 61 countries by the competition's
secretariat (House of Cartoons), 724 were chosen for the final assessment,
from which 293 were by Iranian artists and 431 by foreign artists.
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- The greatest number of participants, after Iran, were
from Turkey, with 31; Brazil, with 21; India, with 17; Indonesia, with
15; and America, with 12 cartoonists.
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- Seyyed Mas'ud Shoja'i-Tabataba'i said the following
about the way in which the competition was judged: The assessment of the
works took place in three stages; ultimately, 150 works made it through
to the exhibition stage and 16 people achieved top ranks.
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- He added: The three top people won 12,000 dollars, 8,000
dollars and 5,000 dollars respectively, as well as a plaque and a statuette,
and 12 people will be given special prizes. [Passage omitted]
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- It should be added that [the names of] the top people,
the date and venue of the exhibition and the prize-giving ceremony will
be announced subsequently, and the people whose works have reached the
exhibition will be awarded the exhibition's catalogue.
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