Tuesday, August 30, 2011

For Ali Ferzat

The above cartoon, in solidarity with Syrian cartoonist Ali Ferzat is by Jonathan Guyer of Mideast by Midwest. Ferzat, who has published cartoons critical of Bashar al-Assad, had his hands broken last week by pro-regime assailants:
In the early hours of Thursday, masked men seized Ferzat from the street and forced him in to a van. A relative has said that Ferzat's attackers targeted his hands, breaking them both, and told him it was "just a warning" before leaving him by the roadside with a bag over his head.
Across the Middle East and elsewhere cartoonists have expressed solidarity with Ferzat.

1 comment:

  1. Every time an American politician such as Rick Perry sells out to the global jihad, I hope the voter will remember the ruined hands of Ali Ferzat the cartoonist. The tyrants such as Bashar Assad crush liberty at every opportunity. In the EU their goal is to convert whole cities into Emirates. In America, global jihad joins the corporate #teaparty to weaken our institutions to the point of submission.

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