Iván Duque's Colombia. Cartoon of 08/04/2021 in CTXT Iván Duque had to rectify and withdraw the law bill that contemplated tax increases on electricity, gasoline, gas and water or funeral services, among other things, but the mobilisations continued, as did the government's violent response to the protests. The tax reform was just another
Cartoon of 28/03/2021 in CTXT The Organic Law 4/2015, passed on 30 March, on the protection of citizen security and popularly known as "gag law", came into force on 1 July 2015 under the government of Mariano Rajoy During its first years of life, there were protests and many other protests against this
Mushtaq Ahmed. Photo: Lipa Akhter. Source CPJ The 53-year-old Bangladeshi writer Mushtaq Ahmed died yesterday in prison of unknown causes. Ahmed was arrested in 2020 on charges of spreading rumors and/or false news about covid-19 on social media. On May 6, 2020, the RAB, Rapid Action Battalion of Bangladesh, arrested the writer along
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
“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
