Ali Ferzat Dedicates Sakharov Prize To Martyrs Of Freedom

I'm grateful that a press organization was able to get in contact with Syrian cartoonist Ali Ferzat, who was one of the members of the Arab Spring movement awarded the European Parliament's Sakharov Prize yesterday morning. Ferzat penned a number of extremely strong cartoons criticizing the Syrian regime's crackdown on protesters, culminating in his being kidnapped and having his hands and arms assaulted by pro-government thugs. That August attack put the widely-respected cartoonist into the international spotlight and proved a huge, public black eye to the Syrian government -- despite their denials and claims they would be hunting down the perpetrators -- for its b-movie villain nature. My gratitude in someone reaching the cartoonist and Damascus gallery owner is that even though there have been statements from Ferzat through the cartoonist's web site, I'm not sure he had spoken to a third-party news source since right after the attack.
 
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