Cartoon for Akram Raslan
Dear Friends, We are going to arrange an online event as a support for Syrian Cartoonist Akram Raslan. Please submit your cartoons/ car...
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Dear Friends,
We are going to arrange an online event as a support for Syrian Cartoonist Akram Raslan.
Please submit your cartoons/ caricature/ portrait as a support of Akram Raslan.
Your cartoons /caricature/ portrait going to be publish in tOOns MaG also in tOOns MaG Online Gallery.
Gallery Link: http://gallery.toonsmag.com/
Theme: Akram Raslan.
Deadline: 20 October 2015.
Resolution: 300 DPI.
All of participants will receive a certificate from tOOns MaG. Please mention us your contact details.
Email us: [email protected]
Best regards
tOOns MaG Administration
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We are going to arrange an online event as a support for Syrian Cartoonist Akram Raslan.
Please submit your cartoons/ caricature/ portrait as a support of Akram Raslan.
Your cartoons /caricature/ portrait going to be publish in tOOns MaG also in tOOns MaG Online Gallery.
Gallery Link: http://gallery.toonsmag.com/
Theme: Akram Raslan.
Deadline: 20 October 2015.
Resolution: 300 DPI.
All of participants will receive a certificate from tOOns MaG. Please mention us your contact details.
Email us: [email protected]
Best regards
tOOns MaG Administration
About Akram Raslan:
Akram
Raslan was CRNI’s 2013 winner of the Award for Courage in Editorial Cartooning.
Past award winners have hailed from Malaysia, South Africa, Turkey, Palestine,
Iran, and India, including last year’s winner, Ali Ferzat, also from Syria.
Since our
most recent posting there have been reports that Akram Raslan is alive, others
claiming otherwise. While we hope it is the former, his current status remains
unclear. CRNI is working every day with a number of sources to verify that he
is alive and relatively well.
To re-cap
the history of Mr. Raslan’s troubles with the Syrian regime of Bashir al-Assad,
in late 2012 Mr. Raslan was abducted from the offices of his newspaper and
“disappeared” into the Syrian dictator’s prisons. In May of 2013, we learned
that Akram would be part of a show trial where he would be charged with various
crimes including sedition and disrespecting the head of state. CRNI responded
with a letter to the Syrian Ambassador in Washington, D.C., asking for his
intervention in having Akram released. We next learned that Akram’s trial would
be postponed, which we took as a positive sign until we heard that instead of
being released additional charges of being a spy for the CIA and for Israel had
been leveled against him.
Next our
sources informed us that on July 26, 2013 Akram Raslan and other prisoners of
conscience including journalists, artists, singers and other intellectuals were
secretly put on trial with no witnesses, no defense attorneys, no appeal, and
no hope for justice. From unconfirmed and sketchy reports we also learned all
were sentenced to life imprisonment. Another rash of unconfirmed reports later
said that young 28-year-old Akram Raslan, and possibly others, were then
secretly executed.
Within the
quagmire that has overtaken Syria and its people, it’s difficult to tell
reliable information from deliberate disinformation. Through the lives of
people like Akram Raslan, we are taught that it’s not only the soldier in the
heat of battle who must be called upon to exhibit courage.
CRNI will
continue to update this ongoing story as new information becomes available and
verifiable.
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information:
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