Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

Soyini A. Hamit at the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has an excellent write-up here on news that Jabeur Mejri will not see Tunisian courts overturn a sentence related to posting cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad on Facebook. As Hamit explains this is both a completely understandable development given the violent objections against certain kinds of art from various Islamist groups and the country's constitutions, but also slightly surprising in that some alleviation of these harsh restrictions was expected in the post-Ben Ali era. As has been widely reported and as is mentioned here, a television executive was convicted in May for showing the animated film version of Persepolis. It sounds like a bad situation, spiraling into a worse one, and demands our attention.
 
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