Update on and Additional Context For Bangladeshi Cartoonist Arifur Rahman

This article takes a look at the situation that continues to face cartoonist Arifur Rahman in Bangladesh, who made a cartoon that depended on a wordplay whereby the name Muhammed was to be used for a cat. This has put the still-young Rahman in jail, where I take it he continues to stay based on a law that allows authorities to jail instigators of public protests for the good of the populace. Meanwhile, the public apology provided by Rahman's paper includes a vow "never to publish anything written or sketched" by Rahman ever again. I don't know anything to add except this continuing story leaves me saddened and discouraged and hoping that there's a positive outcome for Rahman in the end.

If the thought of a young artist sitting in jail without hope of returning to a career is too much to bear, The Sentinel provides the much more hopeful but still melancholy story of Issa Nyaphaga, an artist and cartoonist who was jailed and tortured in his native Cameroon for his work before escaping to France.
 
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