Noted: The Web Site For Syrian Cartoonist Ali Ferzat Is Back Up

That's good news. When the site went down a couple of weeks I was afraid either something had happened to the cartoonist -- injured in August as a result of his strident cartoons about the Arab Spring movement -- given the increasing violence in Damascus, or that Syria had employed one of its periodic draconian measures against Internet expression and that this had taken the site off-line.

Michael Netzer noted in an e-mail he sent over the weekend that the cartoonist and gallery owner, who recently shared in the Sakharov Prize, moved last March to the Kurd territory of Afrin, after two years in Idlib.
 
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