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There are 55 vignettes selected for the final of the first edition of the LIBEX-2018 contest launched on May 15th by the Euro-Mediterranean Center LIBREXPRESSIONof the “Giuseppe Di Vagno” Foundation, on the theme chosen for the 14th edition of the LectorInFabulafestival: “Imagination and Power in the digital age“. A very successful first edition: 260 candidates […]
The murder of two journalists in the EU in the past six months has alerted the European media to the growing threat of censorship For most of Europe – or what a Bulgarian journalist calls the ‘so-called Western democracies’ – censorship is something that happens ‘out there’. Murdered journalists, writers and commentators ‘disappeared’, newspapers closed […]
Action launched by Ismail Dogan: Nuriye and Semih are two teachers in Turkey. They’ve been kicked out from their jobs due to State of Emergency in the country. They have been in jail for months. They are on hunger strike since 313 days. As artists/ cartoonists of the World, would you want to contribute to […]
There has been a very strong participation of the 5.5 million Catalans called to the polls (nearly 82%), largely superior to the previous polls of 2015. The liberal centrist Ciudadanos party, led by the lawyer, Inés Arrimadas, took the first polling place in number of votes (25%) in front of the independentist formations (“Together for […]
On September, 11 – United Sketches (the International Association for Freedom of expression and Cartoonists in exile created and headed by Kianoush Ramezani) and the “The Caen Memorial museum” launched an International Cartoon Competition on the theme “Defending Human Rights” (Prix Mémorial). The International jury and the jury of “Prix Siné” chose the 30 best […]
Bill Stott, president of PCO UK (the Professional Cartoonist Association), has alerted on Twitter and Facebook the world of cartoonists about the case of Eaten Fish, pen name of a young Iranian cartoonist (Ali Durrani), who has fled his country to Australia in 2013. In accordance with the policy for migrants from that country, as […]
This cartoon competition on the theme “Defending human rights” was organized by our partner United Sketches headed by the Iranian political refugee Kianoush, sponsored by the Memorial de Caen (France). The competition was open from 11 september to 30 November 2017. So it is too late to participate. But it will be very interesting to […]
Victim of an arrest warrant issued by the Turkish authorities, the Turkish journalist Can Dündar, while at the Internazionale festival in Ferrara to be honoured by the Anna Politkovskaja journalistic award, was secretly exfiltrated to Germany – where Dündar benefits from political refugee’s status – to avoid being arrested by the Italian police. Such Interpol’s […]
