Kianoush, award-winner in Angoulême Festival

KIANOUSH (KIANOUSH RAMEZANI), member of the Scientific Council of the LIBREXPRESSION Centre, has received the prize of artistic courage, entitled “Couilles au Cul 2018” (French vulgar expression to qualify a person with great courage) prize of the Angoulême comic book festival. A provocative title for a prize for boldness and bravery. The organizers of this […]

Freedom indexes, but which liberties?

For the third consecutive year, the Cato Institute in the United States, the Fraser Institute in Canada – two “think-tanks” of the libertarian right and the liberal institute of the Friedrich-Naumann Foundation in Germany – publish their “Human freedom Index 2017” which paints a comprehensive picture of individual, civil and economic liberties in the world. […]

Welcome in Italy to Erdogan, freedom protector

Monday, February 5, Turkish President  Erdogan is on an official visit to Rome, to encounter Pope Francis, President Mattarella, Prime Minister Gentiloni and above all a delegation of Italian businessmen. With him, an escort of 54 armed agents, a small armoured car with a canon to travel in Rome, while Italy mobilized 3,500 men to […]

Advertising, religion and freedom of expression

In its judgement of the case Sekmadienitis Ltd v. Lithuania (n ° 69317/14), of 31 January 2018, The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), unanimously decided, that Lithuania had violated article 10 (right to freedom of expression) of the European Convention of Human rights. It provoked negative reaction in Italy, specifically from the LEGA, which […]

From Carmen murdered to Carmen murderess

Carmen revised and corrected at the Florence Opera (January 2018) In their version of Bizet’s work, director Leo Muscato and Florenc’s theater Dario Nardella decided to spare Carmen, making her the murderer of Don José. According to them, it is a “cultural, social and ethical message, which denounces violence against women, increased in Italy. A […]

Fake-news and freedom of expression

Here is an essential book to address the current debate on whether or not to legislate against “fake news”, particularly in our new world of social networks. – Oreste POLLICINO, Giovanni PITRUZELLA e Stefano QUINTARELLI “Parole e potere, libertà d’espressione, hate speech e fake news” published by EGEA in 2017. To face the debate it is […]

Tunisia torn between protesters and hooligans

Photo: © Nacer Talel pour HuffPost Maghreb The facts: AFP- While sporadic peaceful protests began last week in the country, the protests escalated into riots on the night of Monday, January 8 to Tuesday, January 9, when clashes erupted after a man’s death during a protest. During the following night, 49 police officers were injured and 206 […]

Tobe or not to be CHARLIE, three years later

In February 2015, I decided, with the complicity of many caricaturist friends, to pay homage to Charlie’s cartoonists and the people murdered during this vile terrorist operation of February, 7 2015 in Paris. Following this publication Guillaume Doizy, the editor-in-chief and creator of the beautiful website www.caricaturesetcaricature.com  interviewed me: http://www.caricaturesetcaricature.com/2015/02/la-satire-est-un-element-fondamental-de-la-democratie-meme-si-elle-peut-etre-un-outil-des-dictatures-donc-du-debat-citoyen-entretien To honor the memory of […]

Free Ramón Esono Ebalé

Equatorial Guinea’s cartoonist committed to defending human rights has been jailed in the absence of charges since 16 December for exercising his right to freedom of expression, on the orders of the President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, in power since 1979. Once again, the community of cartoonists, in particular the CNRI (Cartoonists Rights Network International […]

Autodafé

With a decree of his administration, Trump prevents the highest US Health Authority (Center Disease Control) from using seven “dangerous” words in official documents (Fetus, transgender, vulnerable, diversity, evidence-based, science-based, entitlement). Unfortunately, from the burning of individual words to the burning of books, the passage is short. Text and cartoon by GianFranco Uber Article from […]

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