Published in The Times on 1 Sep 2011

110801tt - Syrian forces beat up political cartoonist Ali Ferzat

Description & Background

Ferzat, who had become increasingly critical of Bashar al-Assad's regime was found bleeding at side of Damascus road. The world-renowned cartoonist has a history of eliciting the wrath of authorities. Masked gunmen dragged Syria's best-known political cartoonist from his car before dawn, broke both his hands and left him bleeding along the side of a road days after he compared Syria's president to Moammar Gaddafi.

People in the cartoon

Ali Ferzat •Bashar Assad

Tags

Syria •Cartoonist

Text in the cartoon

News item:
ASSAD'S THUGS BREAK SYRIAN CARTOONIST'S HANDS
.. For making me LOOK BAD
2400 killed in crackdown
Ali Ferzat

Links

• Syrian forces beat up political cartoonist Ali Ferzat
• Syrian cartoonist Ali Ferzat hospitalised after being beaten
• Syrian cartoonist, 60, has hands broken by masked government forces after he pokes fun at the president
• Syrian cartoonists' hands broken as warning
• Thugs break hands of Syria's top cartoonist for Assad lampoon
• EU urges Syria to end brutal repression

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