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Under this statement, the organisation Cartooning for Peace publishes a plea for help from Safaa Odah(Twitter/ Instagram) which I translate and reproduce: Palestinian cartoonist Safaa Odah writes to us from the Gaza Strip to ask for our help. Displaced several times by the war with her sister, she lives in a tent"in a ... Leer más
On Saturday 13 April 2024, Atena Farghadani, a Tehran-based cartoonist, painter and children's rights activist, was violently arrested by security forces and taken to Evin Prison. This prison is where the Iranian government often imprisons artists, academics, activists, journalists and other dissident intellectuals, and is nicknamed "Evin University". Farghadani was reportedly arrested for ... Leer más
Imagine drawing a cartoon about a corruption case of bestial proportions involving judges, police, politicians, journalists and many strata of society and the government of your country and you end up being accused of intrusion into the intimate life of the prosecutor, of"graphic violence", of racism and so many other ugly things. This ... Leer más
Accusations of anti-Semitism in the face of any criticism of the State of Israel or its prime minister for the ongoing genocide are now a regular occurrence. Rare is the day when we do not encounter one. Now it is the turn of Canadian cartoonist Serge Chapleau, who has seen his cartoon published ... Leer más
Cartooning for Peace has issued a statement warning about the situation of this Ugandan cartoonist. Jimmy Spire Ssentongo, a member of the Cartooning for Peace network, has received death threats after launching an anti-corruption campaign on X (formerly Twitter) under the slogan - #UgandaParliamentExhibition - calling Parliament to account. According to the CfP ... Leer más
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