Zunar’s 2010 Books Can Now Have The Lift On Their Ban Questioned

If I'm reading the reports like this one correctly, the Malaysian cartoonist Zunar doesn't just get to negotiate the last six months of police and judicial pressure on his recent cartoons, including an outright charge of sedition related to supporting materials, the lift on the ban of two books in 2010 is now back on the table for reconsideration.

There was about a week when I thought last Fall's decision on Zunar's 2010 harassment might be a last statement on a period of idiotic harassment against the cartoonist: about as straight-forward and mainstream a satirist as it is possible to imagine. Since then, it's been round after round of new tussles. And now the old work is back on the table to be viewed once more in this light. I can only wish all support and courage to Zunar, who has endured so much for what seems a wholly unreasonable set of expectations by the government.
 
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