{"id":65991,"date":"2015-04-29T15:02:11","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T14:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=65991"},"modified":"2017-03-23T15:31:18","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T15:31:18","slug":"14-may-zunar-in-conversation-with-martin-rowson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=65991","title":{"rendered":"14 May: Zunar in conversation with Martin Rowson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-64845\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/ASIA-Malaysia-Zunar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/ASIA-Malaysia-Zunar.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/ASIA-Malaysia-Zunar-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/ASIA-Malaysia-Zunar-279x200.jpg 279w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/>Malaysian cartoonist Zunar is currently facing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/2015\/04\/malaysian-cartoonist-zunar-says-i-will-keep-drawing-until-the-last-drop-of-my-ink\/\">9 charges<\/a> under the country&#8217;s sedition act, with a maximum penalty of 43 years imprisonment. Five of his books have already been banned, containing cartoons deemed\u00a0&#8220;detrimental to public order&#8221;. Since 2009, his Kuala Lumpur office has repeatedly been raided, thousands of his cartoons confiscated and publishers and bookstores warned off printing or carrying any of his titles.<\/p>\n<p>In a year when cartoons have rarely been far from the headlines, join us for an evening with an award-winning satirist who says &#8220;I will keep drawing until the last drop of my ink&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>One week before his trial in Malaysia, Zunar will be joined by political cartoonist Martin Rowson to share his story through\u00a0words and pictures.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where<\/strong>: Free Word Centre, London<br \/>\n<strong>When<\/strong>: Thursday 14\u00a0May 2015, 7.30pm<br \/>\n<strong>Tickets<\/strong>: Limited, booking essential &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freewordcentre.com\/events\/detail\/zunar-in-conversation-with-martin-rowson\" target=\"_blank\">Book here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Related:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/drawing-pressure-cartoons-from-around-world\/\">Drawing pressure: Cartoons from around the world<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Presented in partnership with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.article19.org\/\">Article 19<\/a>\u00a0and supported by Free Word<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/image001.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-66108\" src=\"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/image001.png\" alt=\"image001\" width=\"128\" height=\"69\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One week before his trial for sedition, the Malaysian cartoonist will share his story through words and pictures <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":65992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[7,6903],"tags":[4143,7068,7372,5129,3689,4218],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65991"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65991"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86955,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65991\/revisions\/86955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/65992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}