“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
Cartoon who almost put Jordanian cartoonist Emad Hajjaj in prison On 23 December 2020, the Criminal Court in Amman (Jordan) decided to terminate the legal proceedings against the cartoonist. The Public Prosecutor's Office now has 60 days from this date to appeal the decision. The court agreed to drop the charges of "contempt for
Cartoonist Nime (also arrested in November 2019) in solidarity with Kechida Twenty-five-year-old Algerian Walid Kechida has been sentenced to three years in prison and a fine of 500,000 dinars (about 3,000 euros) for publishing memes satirizing the state and religion, according to the National Committee for the Liberation of Detainees (CNLD). The general
Ahmed Kabir Kishore in an October 2019 photo On 16 December, UN human rights experts called on Bangladesh to immediately release cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore due to his deteriorating health status. Kishore was arrested in May after his "Life in the Time of Corona" cartoons satirizing the country's response to COVID-19 were posted
Many repressed cartoonists were condemned to oblivion, and their lives and work erased from books. The researcher and cartoonist Lamberto Ortiz wants to bring back to the collective memory part of the history of the graphic humour of that period and recover the figure of Carlos Gómez Carrera, "Bluff" with the book Redescubriendo
