Censorship in India

Censura en India

The Tamil news magazine Vikatan issued a statement on social media denouncing the blocking of its website by the Indian government following the publication of this illustration on the cover of its magazine Vikatan Plus on 10 February. Chronology of the blockade. The image, by cartoonist Hasif Khan, shows Indian Prime Minister Narendra ... Read more

Saudi Arabia sentences cartoonist Mohammed Alhazza Alghamdi to 23 years in prison

Mohammed Alhazza Alghamdi

The UK-based Sanad Human Rights Organisation has uncovered the case of Mohammed Alhazza Alghamdi, a cartoonist and teacher arrested by the Saudi authorities in February 2018. His arrest was a direct consequence of his cartoons for Lusail, a Qatari newspaper, despite having stopped contributing shortly before his arrest. I have not yet been ... Read more

Patreon closes Chilean cartoonist Malaimagen's account without explanation

Malaimagen Patreon

I will never tire of repeating it. Since we have been abandoning blogs, everything has been getting worse for authors. Many artists have decided to dispense with controlled self-publishing and have already devoted their income to the whims of different companies, believing that they still have control over their content, and have ended ... Read more

The Guardian refuses to publish Steve Bell's cartoon about Netanyahu on grounds of "anti-Semitism", days later fires cartoonist

Steve Bell Netanyahu

TR: "Gaza residents, get out now" The Guardian has reportedly refused to publish this cartoon by its cartoonist Steve Bell featuring Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, on the grounds that the piece perpetuated an anti-Semitic trope. In the scene, a boxing-gloved Netanyahu proceeds to remove the map of the Gaza Strip from ... Read more