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Plantu retires Plantu in Le Monde, 5 December 1978 Jean Plantureux, better known as Plantu, has announced that he will soon be leaving the newspaper for which he has been drawing cartoons for 50 years. He is the second cartoonist to lose Le Monde this week, although Plantu has assured that his decision ... Leer más
Zunar is asked to serve three years in prison for this joke. In Malaysia there is a cartoonist who is eternally threatened by the government. His name is Zulkiflee Anwar Alhaque AKA "Zunar". They want to imprison him again for a cartoon in which he criticises a politician. On 25 January, he was ... Leer más
The French cartoonist Xavier Gorce (1962) announced he was quitting Le Monde after the newspaper apologised for a cartoon about a sexual abuse scandal. In her apology to readers, Le Monde editor-in-chief Caroline Monnot said the cartoon should not have been published. The author said blunt on his decision: "I announce that I ... Leer más
Cartoonist Nime (also arrested in November 2019) in solidarity with Kechida Twenty-five-year-old Algerian Walid Kechida has been sentenced to three years in prison and a fine of 500,000 dinars (about 3,000 euros) for publishing memes satirizing the state and religion, according to the National Committee for the Liberation of Detainees (CNLD). The general ... Leer más
Ahmed Kabir Kishore in an October 2019 photo On 16 December, UN human rights experts called on Bangladesh to immediately release cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore due to his deteriorating health status. Kishore was arrested in May after his "Life in the Time of Corona" cartoons satirizing the country's response to COVID-19 were posted ... Leer más
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