Detention

A month without news of Egyptian cartoonist Ashraf Hamdi

A month without news of Egyptian cartoonist Ashraf Hamdi

A month without news of Ashraf Hamdi. This Egyptian cartoonist and animator was arrested on 24 January. His crime: publishing an animation. The video pays tribute to the 2011 uprising on the tenth anniversary of the first mass demonstrations that toppled Hosni Mubarak. On his Facebook account, the last and only trace of

Egyptian police arrest cartoonist Ashraf Hamdi for "misuse of social media and dissemination of false news."

Egyptian police arrest cartoonist Ashraf Hamdi for "misuse of social media and dissemination of false news."

“I'm getting arrested” With this terse message on his Facebook account, Egyptian cartoonist Ashraf Hamdi announced his arrest on 24 January shortly after posting a video tribute to the 2011 uprising on the tenth anniversary of the first mass demonstrations that toppled Hosni Mubarak. The video posted by Hamdi was a short animation