Expressed Support For Arifur Rahman?

This post, which is in English, leads to an interview with the long-suffering cartoonist Arifur Rahman that's definitely not in English. Still, I thought the fact of the interview and the way in which the post supporting it was written might indicate something worth noting about the cartoonist's situation. Rahman's story is heartbreaking: being jailed on the basis that his presence in public would lead to violence because he labeled a character in a comic with the name Muhammed, losing his job and most vocational opportunities because of the resulting hardship, seeing members of his family fall sick without the resources of such a job to fall back on. This is one of the first media reports from that part of the world that seems to recognize those elements of Rahman's story and further sees his actions during that time as responsible and laudatory, which I hope indicates there may be some way to restore him to the profession he hopes to pursue.
 
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