Go, Watch: Video On Abdullah Jaber’s Disappearance

Here's an interesting story that just sort of slid by with minimal notice. The cartoonist Abdullah Jaber was blocked from publishing in any Saudi paper after making an extremely mild cartoon about the blind acceptance of authoritarian reality. The suddenness of his departure was enough to worry friends and peers as to his freedom and health, until a tweet ten days latter assuaged them.

Cartoonists standing in solidarity with a respect peers is great; it's also admirable considering how little relative power these cartoonists have. The sheer number of countries with hostile policies towards what would seem to you and me like mild criticism via cartoon continues to dismay, and should at some point of necessity become a part of how countries without this particular problem forge relationships with those that do.
 
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