Cartoonist Zunar
The trial of Malaysia’s political cartoonist Zunar (Zulkiflee SM Anwar Ulhaque) on sedition charges, originally scheduled for July, has been postponed until the court rules on the constitutionality of the law the cartoonist was charged under. Zunar’s nine sedition charges over tweets he made following a politically charged trial carry a possible 43-year prison term. The possibility of a jail sentence has not side-lined Zunar, who in an interview with the South China Morning Post said: “The job of political cartoonists everywhere in the world is to criticise the government of the day. But in Malaysia, that is not enough. When you live in a repressive regime, you not only criticise, you have to fight. My job is to fight through cartoons.”
