Karbala Cartoon Exhibition Raid Galvanizes Discussion Of Free Speech Within Iraq

An Iraqi parliamentary committee meeting yesterday in Baghdad became the forum for discussion of a raid last week in Karbala, where an artist claims his cartoon lampooning Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki was taken from an exhibition. Artist Salman Abid told international press that his aim was not ridicule but political satire. The area's governor, Amal-Din al-Hir, claimed that Abid and area press are wrong to say that the cartoon was seized, stating that the exhibiton was put on without local authorization. Abid countered that his house was searched on the same day as the exhibition.
 
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