RFI: Zunar Goes Into Hiding

An article going up today at Radio France International indicates that the Malaysian cartoonist Zulfiklee Anwar Ulhaque, better known as Zunar, has gone into hiding rather than be available for easy arrest under the country's Internal Security Act. Zunar was arrested on Friday and released Saturday, charged with violations under the Sedition Act, although he was not told which of his drawings constituted a seditious statement. A planned book release party of a book seized by police at the same time they arrested the cartoonist went on with the cartoonist's wife presiding. The arrest was excoriated by major international rights groups and local non-governmental organizations on Monday.

Zunar has publicly mocked past attempts by the government to paint his cartoons, which frequently address politically sensitive subjects, even going so far as to ask where are all the riots his work has supposedly caused? The work in question appeared on a popular Malaysian on-line news portal without objection by the government -- the latest a range of work from 2009-2010. We wish Zunar all the best in seeing this episode through, and we add our small voice to the chorus condemning these ridiculous acts against creative expression and calling for their end.
 
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