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Cartoonist Zunar could get 43 years in prison for nine cartoons
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http://www.sources.com/Releases/NR2549.htm
Publisher: Reporters Without Borders
Date Written: 09/09/2015
Year Published: 2015
Resource Type: Article
Reporters Without Borders condemns well-known cartoonist Zunar’s trial on a sedition charge for posting nine of his cartoons on Twitter, and urges the Malaysian authorities to stop harassing him judicially and psychologically.
Abstract: Reporters Without Borders condemns well-known cartoonist Zunar’s trial on a sedition charge for posting nine of his cartoons on Twitter, and urges the Malaysian authorities to stop harassing him judicially and psychologically.
Zunar, whose real name is Zulkiflee Anwar Alhaque, will be facing up to 43 years in prison on nine counts under the Sedition Act at the trial, which starts tomorrow after being postponed from 7 July.
The nine cartoons criticized corruption in Prime Minister Najib A...
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