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Malaysian cartoonist Zunar's last cartoon tweeted out before his arrest on February 10th in Kuala Lampur. The cartoon condemns Malaysia's judiciary for dismissing opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim's final appeal against a sodomy conviction and suggests Prim

Malaysia calls a tweet ‘seditious’ and arrests the cartoonist who posted it

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Malaysia’s having a ‘Je suis Charlie’ moment. The government there has arrested a satirist for a tweet and a cartoon and the world is taking notice.

Global Political Cartoons: Malaysian Cartoonist Zunar

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