Malaysia

Zunar (left) and Surendran celebrate the news outside the courthouse. Photo: Zunar Another case comes to a happy ending for a cartoonist who has suffered years of severe persecution by his country's government. Yesterday he was acquitted of the nine charges of sedition he faced.

Zunar's cartoon summarising his "problems" Another chapter in the Malaysian government's persecution of Zulkiflee Anwar Haque, a Malaysian cartoonist who signs his name as " Zunar, a Malaysian cartoonist who signs his work as "Zunar", which can be described in no uncertain terms as repression.