Mohammed Alhazza Alghamdi, known as Al Hazza, is a Saudi cartoonist who was arrested in February 2018 by the Saudi authorities and accused of creating “offensive cartoons” for the Qatari media outlet Lusail, during the protracted diplomatic crisis between Qatar and Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Bahrain, which began in ... Read more
This week it emerged that a well-known cartoonist in Eritrea has been released after spending 15 years in detention without charge. Cartoonist Biniam Solomon, who signs "Cobra" and is now in his 60s, was arrested in 2011 in Asmara, the country's capital, but was never prosecuted and both the reasons for his arrest ... Read more
Democracy USA style. Cartoon of 09/01/2026 in CTXT The case of the murder of Renee Good, shot in Minneapolis by an agent of Trump's infamous ICE terror squad, is just confirmation that it was only a matter of time before the government started executing its citizens to impose its new "order". This should ... Read more
Ashraf Omar, the cartoonist who worked for the daily Al Manassa, remains imprisoned. He has been in pre-trial detention for more than a year on various charges. On 21 July 2024, Egyptian cartoonist and translator Ashraf Omar was violently taken from his home in Cairo by men in civilian clothes who blindfolded him, ... Read more
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
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