Cartoonists Rachita Taneja and Zunzi honored on World Press Freedom Day
Today our partners FREEDOM CARTOONISTS announce the 2024 winners of the Kofi Annan Courage in Cartooning Award; Rachita Taneja (India) and Zunzi (Hong Kong).
Read MorePosted by Terry Anderson | May 3, 2024 | Awards, News
Today our partners FREEDOM CARTOONISTS announce the 2024 winners of the Kofi Annan Courage in Cartooning Award; Rachita Taneja (India) and Zunzi (Hong Kong).
Read MorePosted by Terry Anderson | Apr 22, 2024 | News
CARTOONISTS RIGHTS and four other leading free expression organizations – Artists at Risk Connection (ARC), PEN America, Cartooning for Peace, and Freedom Cartoonists – voice their gravest concerns over cartoonist Atena Farghadani, arrested in Tehran mid-April 2024 and allegedly beaten by IRGC personnel.
Read MorePosted by Terry Anderson | Apr 11, 2024 | News
Today four organizations concerned with the safety and free expression of press cartoonists – Cartooning for Peace, Cartoonists Rights, Freedom Cartoonists, and Freemuse – make a joint statement on behalf of Zehra Ömeroğlu, recently found criminally liable for “obscenity” over a cartoon that appeared in Turkish humour magazine LeMan in 2020.
Read MorePosted by Terry Anderson | Mar 14, 2024 | News
Cartoonist Zehra Ömeroğlu is at risk of imprisonment after a cartoon published in LeMan magazine in 2020 was found obscene by a board of censors in Türkiye.
Read MorePosted by Terry Anderson | Dec 22, 2023 | News
Effective immediately CARTOONISTS RIGHTS will cease posting to Twitter/X, citing mismanagement, disfunction, and increased hatred on the social media platform.
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