Iranian Artist In Europe Gets Death Threats From Home

A fatwa urging the killing of Iranian artist Sooreh Hera, who now lives in the Netherlands, has been published in Iranian newspapers, according to Fox News today. The death threats came after the artist attempted to display her photos of gay men titled "Adam & Ewald, Seventh-Day Lovers." Some of the photos include depictions of the Prophet Muhammad and his son-in-law Ali. Art Amsterdam, a Dutch art festival, has now agreed to show Hera's work next month, but only if the photos of partly undressed men wearing masks of Ali and Muhammad are excluded. Hera has called on the Dutch Ministry of Culture to give protection to controversial art and artists.