On the first anniversary of his arrest, international cartoonists’ & free expression organisations call for the release of Ashraf Omar.
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CARTOONISTS RIGHTS joins fifteen other human rights, anti-censorship, and cartoonists’ organisations in calling for an end to the “pre-trial detention” of Ashraf Omar, as following a seventh consecutive extension he endures his one-hundredth day in an Egypt prison.
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CARTOONISTS RIGHTS and 33 other rights and press freedom organizations, condemn the recent arrests and enforced disappearance of four Egyptian journalists – Ashraf Omar, Khaled Mamdouh, Ramadan Gouida, and Yasser Abu Al-Ela – and call for their immediate release.
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CARTOONISTS RIGHTS and partners around the world react as the Revolutionary Court of the Islamic Republic of Iran imprisons Atena Farghadani for six years.
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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.
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