CARTOONISTS RIGHTS and partners around the world react as the Revolutionary Court of the Islamic Republic of Iran imprisons Atena Farghadani for six years.
CARTOONISTS RIGHTS and partners around the world react as the Revolutionary Court of the Islamic Republic of Iran imprisons Atena Farghadani for six years.
Today our partners FREEDOM CARTOONISTS announce the 2024 winners of the Kofi Annan Courage in Cartooning Award; Rachita Taneja (India) and Zunzi (Hong Kong).
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.
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.
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.