Distressing International Free Speech News Updates With Cartoonist Elements

* Afrik.com has a long post up about the deteriorating press freedom situation in Morocco. Two things of note in there. First is that the publication Le Journal Hebdomadaire is being forced out of business by an avalanche of debt that some folks think is being wielded against the publication. That publication was criticized during the Danish Cartoons Controversy by rumors that said it had run the cartoons when all it had done was run a photo of someone reading them with the cartoons themselves blacked out. Second is that last Fall's fine to Akhbar al-Youm and suspended sentences for the paper's editor and cartoonist over a cartoon depicting the king's cousin is a significant sign of how far things have devolved in that country in terms of its press freedoms.

* the cartoonist and journalist Prageeth Eknaligoda is still missing in Sri Lankan, as articles about the situation tend to speak more and more about the wider context of press abuses following that country's recent presidential election. The newest information I've been able to glean from casual asides in news reports is that Eknaligoda does have some health issues that makes holding him for a long time a very risky proposition, if that's what's taken place.
 
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