After five long years of a judicial process stretched by adjournments, the Istanbul Court of First Instance finally acquitted the Turkish cartoonist Zehra Ömeroglu on Thursday 26 June. The cartoonist was tried for an alleged offence of "obscenity" for a cartoon published in LeMan magazine in 2020 and faced a prison sentence of
Zehra Ömeroğlu drew a cartoon entitled "Pandemic Sex" for the Turkish satirical magazine LeMan in November 2020. Following the publication of the cartoon, she has been involved in a criminal prosecution for "obscenity" which is dragging on. By March 2024, the trial had already been postponed four times. Today, after thirteen court hearings,
Translation: Pandemic sex... (A man sniffs a woman from behind): "At least I didn't lose my taste and smell..." I reproduce a press release from Cartooning for Peace and Cartoonists Right on the judicial persecution that the Turkish authorities have been subjecting cartoonist Zehra Ömeroğlu (1985)(Linktr) for more than three years. The trial
