European Comics Censorship Fights

Several updates on stories developing in Europe having to do with comics censorship.

* According to a profile by the BBC, Ali Farzat's comics work, such as the piece pictured here, do not suffer from state censorship in his country of Syria but in a climate of fear that all but keeps his cartoons from ever being published.

* Last week artists and politician at a Vienna press conference pledged support to embattled Gerhard Haderer, author of the satirical take on Jesus Das Leben des Jesus convicted of obscenity in Greece last year. This article is the first to mention that the European Union may bring with it a subpoena system that could be used to serve papers to Haderer across traditional national lines.

* Salih Memecan is keeping the heat on Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Erdogan has repeatedly sued cartoonists who depict him as an animal in the service of make a satirical point about him or his administration, and has won a few of those suits. This has caused waves of bad publicity that could even have an effect on Turkey's ongoing economic and political relationships with Western European countries. Memecan's cartoon on the front page of a newspaper follows one satirical magazine's entire section of such cartoons.
 
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