During a recent interview with the Turkish newspaper The Daily Hurriyet, Noble laureate Orhan Pamuk openly expressed his concerns over the increasingly limited freedom of speech and the declining state of free journalism in his home country of Turkey; “The…
Category: International
Middle Eastern Comics Battle Terrorist Ideologies
Malaysian Government Seeks Details on Zunar Customers
Allegedly Harmful: UK Injunction Patrols the Fine Line Between Freedom of Speech and Child Welfare
In early October the Court of Appeals in the UK issued an injunction, halting the publication of an unnamed memoir on the grounds that if distributed its “allegedly harmful” content could be “likely to exert a catastrophic effect on [the…
Indie Comics Reborn in Egypt
Did a Polish Town Ban Winnie the Pooh?
Danish Editor Reflects on Muhammad Cartoon Controversy in New Book
Malaysian Human Rights Group Supports Zunar
Following yesterday’s news that Malaysian political cartoonist Zunar and several business associates are again under investigation by government authorities for sedition, the human rights organization Suara Rakyat Malaysia (SUARAM) today issued a statement demanding an end to the “unrelenting harassment…