Dissident Artist Naushad Waheed Freed

Through various human rights organizatons comes word that the artist and cartoonist Naushad Waheed was recently freed in the Maldives. Waheed had been convicted in a 2001 trial to 15 years in prison for taking part in political debates. He had been brought to the attention of authorities in 1999 when he published a cartoon in the magazine Hukurum critical of the government and was detained for four months as a result, briefly becoming an international press cause celebre. I lack the experience and perspective to make much of the political elements in Waheed's sentence and subsequent release, but I do find it interesting he seemed to be making art while in prison, including, I believe, the picture at right of slain prisoner Evaan Naseem.
 
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