Posts Tagged ‘cartoon’
September 29th, 2011
A cartoonist is
facing trial for a caricature in which he renounces God.
Turkish cartoonist Bahadır Baruter created an image showing an imam and believers praying in a mosque, with one believer on his mobile phone, asking God to excuse him from the last part of the prayer to run errands. The Istanbul chief public prosecutor’s office charged Baruter with “insulting the religious values adopted by a part of the population” and requested that he be imprisoned for one year. The cartoon, which was published in the weekly Penguen magazine, included the words ”There is no Allah, religion is a lie”, hidden in the image.
January 19th, 2011
The chief executive officer and managing director of Business Summit Review was
detained on January 11 after the magazine ran a cover cartoon depicting Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni slicing up a cake in celebration of 48 years of Uganda’s independence. Mustapha Mugisa was released a few hours after his arrest but faces charges of political offence.
December 14th, 2010
South African president,
Jacob Zuma has filed a $440,000 defamation lawsuit over a cartoon depicting him as a
rapist of the justice system. The cartoon, published in 2008 by South Africa’s Sunday Times, depicts Zuma pulling his trousers down and about to rape a woman symbolising the justice system, aided by allies. One of Zuma’s allies depicted in the cartoon, filed a complaint about the cartoon before South Africa’s Human Rights Commission in 2008, however the commission concluded that the cartoon did not violate Zuma’s constitutional right to dignity or constitute hate speech.
July 16th, 2010
Prominent Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki has placed the cartoonist responsible for the
Everybody Draw Mohammed Day campaign on an
hit list. Writing in English language Al Qaeda magazine
Inspire, New Mexico born al-Awlaki branded Molly Norris a blasphemer and declared that she “does not deserve life, does not deserve to breathe the air”. In April 2010, Norris started a Facebook group encouraging people to draw Mohammed, in retaliation to Comedy Central’s decision to
edit South Park’s depiction of the Islamic prophet, which resulted in Pakistan
blocking the social networking site. The FBI has warned Norris of what they consider to be “a very serious threat”.
May 5th, 2010
The Dutch public prosecutor will
challenge an April court ruling which acquitted a Muslim group of insulting Jews by publishing a
cartoon denying the holocaust. The public prosecutor said yesterday the appeal was necessary to establish whether the cartoon added to public discussion or was “exceptionally offensive”. The
Arab European League claims it was highlighting free speech double standards following the row over publication of cartoons featuring the prophet Mohammed.
October 2nd, 2009
The Moroccan government is suing daily newspaper Akhbar Al Youm after it published a cartoon of Prince Moulay Ismail. The government said the
cartoon showed “blatant disrespect” to the royal family.
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August 26th, 2009
In Kuala Lumpur, copies of the inaugural issue of Gedung Kartun magazine have been confiscated by officials due to a “lack of publication permit” as well as for “content checking.” The magazine’s editor-in-chief and well-known cartoonist Zulkiflee Anwar Haque aka Zunar disputes this and claims to have verbally obtained a license serial number. Read more here
July 28th, 2008
Najam Sethi, chief editor of Pakistan’s
Daily Times, received death threats from militant group the Islamic Taliban Movement for publishing a cartoon in one of the paper’s sister publications,
Aaj Kal. The cartoon depicted the leader of a radical women’s madrassa, Umme Hassan, calling for female students to wage violent jihad. The threat followed a demonstration in Lahore last week during which Hassan called the cartoon blasphemous.
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