No Outrage For Palestinian Cartoonist Who Was Arrested And Jailed In IsraelNo Outrage For Palestinian Cartoonist Who Was Arrested And Jailed In Israel
In the wake of the Paris terror attacks on the satire magazine Charlie Hebdo, a number of other instances of censorship and terrorism against artists and satirists have been ignored – perhaps even deliberately – by the mainstream media.
The cartoonist Mohammad Saba’aneh was arrested at the Allenby Bridge checkpoint in Israel and sentenced by the Israeli Salem Military Court in April of 2013 for “contact with a hostile organization.”
But Saba’aneh and his supporters say that this was all backlash against his political cartoons, by the State that he was so critical of.
Saba’aneh was held without charge from the beginning.
No Outrage For Palestinian Cartoonist Who Was Arrested And Jailed In Israel
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