Turkey, once again, fight against freedom of press

  Libex publish the Reporter Without Boarders communiqué, condividing fully the content: Turkish court sentences three journalists to life imprisonment Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is appalled by the sentences of life imprisonment with no possibility of a pardon that an Istanbul court passed on three well-known journalists today, in what has been a terrible day […]

Valentine’s day and freedom of expression

Of Roman origin, linked to ritual practices related to the cycle of nature, to the celebration of purification and fertility, the lupercalia, celebrated between the 13th and the 15th of February, was banned by the Catholic church in 494 and replaced by two other feasts, one to celebrate the purification (candlemas) and the other to […]

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 […]

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 […]

Tunisia: Threats on freedom of press

I reproduce a worrying news published by the press agency AnsaMed on new threats to freedom of the press in Tunisia. Our correspondent in Tunisia, Ilaria Guidantoni, will keep us informed about the evolution of the situation. A situation already reported, in May 2017, by Reporters Without Boarders and numerous other NGOs because the government […]

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 […]

US & Global warming: towards a new McCarthyism

President Trump never hide to be strongly climate change skeptic, declaring that global warming was a Chinese propaganda against American prosperity and that all Obama’s legislations to protect against climate change had to be removed. One of his first move (apart from refusing to sign the COP21 agreement, relaunch coal extraction, etc.) was to nominate […]

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 […]

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