More On Zunar’s Legal Challenge

The Centre For Independent Journalism has come out in support of the legal challenge being made by the cartoonist Zunar (Zulkiflee Anwar Ulhaque) and the publisher Malaysiakini. As noted at CR last week, the cartoonist and the publisher filed separate applications for legal review of a ban on two of Zunar's books: 1Funny Malaysia and Perak Darul Kartun. The plan as announced in the initial press release seems to be to press the government on free speech issues and on their claim that the publications needed to be removed from the marketplace because they would incite danger with the public, Zunar going so far as to say he would ask the authorities to point out any past riots caused by his work.

A follow-up piece by Patrick Saw writing to a news and view site covering Malaysia points out how the government actually uses multiple agencies to dampen free speech, in a seeming arbitrary way.

CR recently received an e-mail from we believe the cartoonist thanking CR readers for their general attention to his fight by reading our posts and following the links back to local coverage.
 
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