Saudi Arabia sentences cartoonist Mohammed Alhazza Alghamdi to 23 years in prison

Mohammed Alhazza Alghamdi

The UK-based Sanad Human Rights Organisation has uncovered the case of Mohammed Alhazza Alghamdi, a cartoonist and teacher arrested by the Saudi authorities in February 2018. His arrest was a direct consequence of his cartoons for Lusail, a Qatari newspaper, despite having stopped contributing shortly before his arrest. I have not yet been ... Read more

Australian Press Council calls Mark Knight cartoon "offensive and prejudiced"

Mark Knight

Australian cartoonist Mark Knight has once again been at the centre of controversy for one of his cartoons published on 21 May 2024 in the Herald Sun. The cartoon alludes to the rise of immigration in Australia, an issue that has generated widespread political debate in the country. However, an anonymous complaint to ... Read more

Agreement to reform the Gag Law

Acuerdo de reforma de la Ley Mordaza

Agreement to reform the Gag Law. Cartoon of 06/10/2024 in CTXT Organic Law 4/2015, passed on 30 March, on the protection of citizen security and popularly known as the gag law, came into force on 1 July 2015 under the government of Mariano Rajoy. You can read it in the BOE. The Socialists ... Read more

Adder's Michael and the monkey's mistake with a happy ending

Michael de Adder y el error del mono con final feliz

A cartoon published on 19 September in The Chronicle Herald newspaper and on the Saltwire website that poked fun at the large number of people running for mayor of Halifax caused a stir in Canada. The joke uses the image of a monkey to represent a candidate. Michael de Adder's cartoon, entitled"We're going ... Read more

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