The two previous instalments can be consulted here.
Humour in trouble (I). Cases from 1978 to 2016
Humour in trouble (III). Cases from 2020 onwards
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Last updated: 21 April 2022. Total cases: 181
2019 Algeria / Benabdelhamid Amine, "Nime"
Cartoonist Benabdelhamid Amine, "Nime" (Twitter - Blog), was convicted and sentenced. He will spend at least three months of his one-year sentence in prison.
He was on trial for his satirical illustrations, for "insulting" Algerian politicians and the Algerian military.
The conviction is based on Article 96 of the Algerian penal code, which punishes up to three years' imprisonment for anyone who "distributes (...) exposes to the public (...) for propaganda purposes, leaflets or newsletters or images of such a nature as to be detrimental to national interests".
2 January 2020. A video and some photos appear from which it is clear that he has been released.
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2019 New Zealand / Garrick Tremain
The Otago Daily Times newspaper in New Zealand apologised for the this cartoon about the measles outbreak in Samoa and suspended its cartoonist Garrick Tremain (1941) after the cartoonist was accused of mocking the epidemic and the paper was accused of spreading racist messages. Its editor even had to apologise in the street to a group of protesters who gathered outside the newspaper.
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2019 Bolivia /Al-Azar
Alejandro Salazar (Cochabamba-1959), who signs as "Al-Azar". He left the newspaper La Razón, where he had worked as a cartoonist since 2011. This was announced by the newspaper on an editorial on 3 November.
The main reason is that he claims to feel besieged by the aggressive reactions to his latest cartoons, but what has had more weight in his decision to leave his job has been the reaction of his professional colleagues, who published a "Public statement" as a trade union column shaking off any responsibility for his cartoons, the disappointment of the "accusing finger" of his colleagues was the final reason for his decision, not an easy one for a cartoonist.
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2019 Spain Elihu Duayer / Getxo City Council / UNESCO Etxea
ErNE, a trade union of the Ertzaintza, the Basque regional police force, is calling for the removal of a cartoon from an exhibition in Getxo on human rights organised by UNESCO Etxea. According to the union, the image links the police to torture.
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2019 Algeria / Nime
The painter, sculptor and cartoonist, Abdelhamid Aminebetter known as "Nime", was arrested on Tuesday 26 November by plainclothes Algerian police officers who entered the offices of his advertising agency "Creature" and seized his computers and other tools and work material.
According to local NGO CNLD, the first information on the causes of his arrest point to Nime's latest works, published on his blog in early November.
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2019 Colombia / Nadim
The Colombian cartoonist Nadim had to go to court on Tuesday 15 October for a conciliation meeting with Abelardo de la Espriella.
This controversial the pro-Uribe lawyer considers that Nadím's cartoon, which was published on 26 October 2018 in "Las 2 Orillas" under the title "Abelardo el multifacético", is offensive.
Now, the plaintiff asks that the cartoon be removed from the Las 2 Orillas website and that the cartoonist also remove it from all the networks where he has published it.
Update: The case was filed just two months after the complaint, the matter was not even fit for trial.
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2019 Pakistan / Khalid Hussain
The cartoon by the cartoonist Khalid Hussain (1965) published on 25 September in the Pakistani daily newspaper The Nation provoked complaints and criticisms with some calling the cartoon disgraceful, insulting and disrespectful and adding the whole repertoire of complaints about offences to the country, the paper not only apologised, it has also ensured that the cartoon no longer appears in its gallery(screenshot) and decided to stop publishing Khalid Hussain's cartoons.
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2019 Panama / Hilde Sucre
Panama's former president, Ricardo Martinelli, has sued the cartoonist and the media outlet Hilde Sucre (FB) and the media My Newspaper for this cartoon published on 17 April 2019.
Martinelli seeks $100,000 in damages for an alleged offence against his honour.
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2019 Brazil / various authors
A day after the inauguration of the graphic humour exhibition "Independência e Risco" (Independence and Risk), installed at the entrance of the plenary hall of the Porto Alegre City Hall (Brazil), it was closed and all the cartoons removed.
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2019 Canada / Malcolm Mayes
The Canadian newspaper Edmonton Journal apologised for this cartoon from Malcolm Mayes (1962) that some considered anti-Semitic. As of today, the cartoon already does not appear in the gallery of pieces published in August on the newspaper's website.
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2019 China / Zhang Dongning
On Sunday 28 July, the police in Anhui Province announced on its account on the Weibo social network that in May it had detained a 22-year-old cartoonist for disseminating content that "humiliates China".
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2019 United Kingdom / Steve Bell
The cartoonist Steve Bell (Walthamstow, London, 1951) sent a blunt letter to The Guardian, the newspaper he has worked for since 1981, after one of the strips in his section entitled "If" was rejected.
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2019 Spain/ Editorial Comanegra and others
In mid-June, representatives of the national police union, JUPOL Baleares, went to court in Palma to file a complaint that will lead to a conciliation process as a preliminary step to filing a complaint for hate crime and slander for the publication of the comic in which the police forces are attacked, according to this unionattacks the State Security Forces for their actions during 1 October 2017 in Catalonia.
The conciliation proceedings will be held on 25 September.
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2019 Canada/ Michael de Adder
On 28 June, Canadian Michael de Adder was fired from his job as an editorial cartoonist for major newspapers Brunswick News Inc. 24 hours after this cartoon went viral on social media. de Adder had been working for the company for 17 years.
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2019 India/ Suhail H. Naqshbandi
On 1 May, the cartoonist Suhail H. Naqshbandi published a text in which he explained his reasons for quitting his job as an editorial cartoonist for the daily Greater Kashmir. Censorship of the medium was increasing and government pressures ended up making his work impossible.
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2019 USA/Portugal / António Moreira Antunes
In April 2019, The New York Times apologised for a cartoon by Portuguese-born António Moreira about Trump and Netanyahu published in its international edition after receiving numerous accusations of anti-Semitism.
The paper cancelled the contract with the syndicate that provided the cartoons and disciplined (whatever that means) the editor who had chosen the piece.
On 10 June, the New York Times announces on 1 July stopped publishing political cartoons in its international edition and announced that it was laying off two of its editorial cartoonists, Patrick Chappatte and Heng Kim Song.
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2019 Brazil / Renato Aroeira
In late January, the Jewish federation of Rio announced a lawsuit against cartoonist Renato Aroeira for this cartoon, published by the newspaper O Dia, about minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Brazil's new president, Jair Bolsonaro. The image, entitled "the embrace", shows the two leaders forming a swastika with their arms.
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2019 Nicaragua / Pedro X. Molina
Confidencial cartoonist Pedro Molina denounced on 25 February 2018 having received serious threats from the government of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo and pointed to the couple as responsible for anything that might happen to him or people close to him.
Molina said that the threats came from a person linked to the government party and that he had passed them on verbally to someone close to his family, including precise and abundant details of his private life.
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