Zunar And Publisher Allowed To Challenge Legal Barring Of Collections

If I'm reading this Malaysia-focused wire piece correctly, it looks like there was a positive development in the increasingly distressing struggle between the cartoonist Zulkiflee SM Anwarul Haque, better known as Zunar, and forces within the Malaysian government. According to the story the publisher of his books 1 Funny Malaysia and Perak Darul Kartun, a print arm of the popular online news site Malaysiakini.com, has been granted permission by the High Court to challenge the court ban.

It was that ban back in May that led to the politically charged situation of last month where Zunar was to release another book in roughly the same vein as those that were banned, which led to the cartoonist's arrest and being charged with sedition.

As Zunar himself has said in interviews, the representative for the publisher pointed out that all of the material in the books and one of the books were available to Malaysian readers on the Malaysiakini.com web site, and that no incident of civil unrest developed despite this widespread availability.
 
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