19 ottobre 2013 ore 08:01 QUESTA NOTIZIA E’ MOLTO RECENTE (15 OTTOBRE)–NON HO MODO DI VERIFICARLA—AKRAM RASLAN SAREBBE STATO ASSASSINATO—PER CHI SA L’INGLESE SOTTO C’E’ LA FONTE: ATTENZIONE PERO’! QUI LA NOTIZIA: “AKRAM RASLAN?”, COME VEDETE E’ CON IL PUNTO INTERROGATIVO! UNA DIFFERENZA ABISSALE! SOTTO, DATE UN’OCCHIATA A QUESTO SITO INTERNAZIONALE DI DIFESA DEI CARTOONISTI MINACCIATI: RAGAZZI MIEI, MIEI AMATI PRODI E ANCHE “NON PRODI”, APPENA SI ESCE UN PO’ DALL’ITALIA CI SI ALLARGA IL CUORE A VEDERE TANTA GENTE CHE, SENZA TANTI MEDIA A BATTACCHIARE, LOTTA ED OTTIENE. USCIAMO DA QUESTA “MALATTIA MORTALE”! (KIRKEGAARD, titolo di un libro, per chi mai lo volesse sapere!)

Pubblicato il 19 Ottobre 2013 da Chiara Salvini

Il cartoonist siriano Akram Raslan (1974) assassinato

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Pubblicato il 15 ottobre 2013

 

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Il cartoonist siriano Akram Raslan assassinato Akram Raslan Secondo quanto reso noto dal sitoCartoonists Right International Network, il cartoonist siriano AkramRaslan, sarebbe stato assassinato e il suo corpo seppellito in una fossa comune nei dintorni di Damasco.

Raslan era stato arrestato in primavera per avere postato su facebook numerosi disegni e caricature ostili al regime di Bashar Al-Assad, contro il quale è in corso ormai da tre anni una sanguinosa guerra civile, costata la vita a oltre 100.000 persone. Lo scorso 26 luglio, assieme a intellettuali, artisti e cantanti, il cartoonist è stato processato senza testimoni, difesa e alcun diritto di appello al carcere a vita.

Secondo testimonianze, sarebbe in seguito stato separato insieme ad altri prigionieri dal convoglio diretto al carcere, venendo così giustiziato.

Il sito, che cita una fonte anonima ma affidabile, sostiene che l’omicidio di Akram e di altri prigionieri condannati sia stata ordinata da Mohammad Nassif Kheir Bek, attualmente il VicePresidente per gli Affari della Sicurezza in Siria, un esponente del regime baathistagià sanzionato dall’Unione Europea per l’uso della violenza contro i manifestanti.

Akram aveva 39 anni ed era stato premiato con il Award for Courage in Editorial Cartooning, per il coraggio dimostrato contro la repressione attuata dal regime di Assad.

 

 

QUESTA E’ LA PRESENTAZIONE CHE FA IL SITO DI SE STESSO:

(tutto molto più o meno, dice:)

“La rete internazionale di cartoonists (CRNI) lotta per difendere i diritti umani delle persone e la loro liberta’ creativa  nel mondo intero quando è sotto minaccia, arresto o intimidazione a causa del potere e dell’influenza del loro lavoro professionale…intraprende campagne a difesa-…ecc.”


TESTO ORIGINALE

Cartoonists Rights Network International fights to protect the human rights and the personal and creative freedom of editorial cartoonists around the world under threat, arrest, or intimidation because of the power and influence of their professional work.

CRNI’s network of over 600 editorial and social cartoonists throughout the world monitors these threats to editorial cartoonists and their families and activates campaigns to raise awareness and public pressure that push back against these threats.

 

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Is Akram Raslan Alive?

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10/18/2013

 

Since this posting (below) there have been reports that Akram is still alive.  We hope it is rather these reports that are true.   We are working every day with a number of sources to verify that he is still alive.

Robert Russell, Executive Director, CRNI

Here There Be Dragons:
in Syria Akram Raslan is slain.

We’ve learned that on July 26, Akram Raslan and other prisoners of conscience including journalists, artists, singers and other intellectuals were secretly put on trial with no witnesses, no defense attorneys, no appeal, and no hope for justice.  From unconfirmed and sketchy reports we learned that they were all condemned to life imprisonment.
Somehow, along the way to prison young 28-year-old Akram Raslan (and possibly others) was peeled off,  taken out and executed. He is reported to be in a mass grave somewhere near Damascus. Our reliable but for obvious reasons anonymous sources further allege that the murder of Akram and other condemned prisoners was carried out by Mohammad Nassif Kheir Bek, currently the Deputy Vice President for Security Affairs in Syria.  He has already been sanctioned by the European Union for the use of violence against protesters and the Syrian civil war.
Akram Raslan was the winner of the Cartoonists Rights Network International, Award for Courage in Editorial Cartooning for 2013.  Past award winners have hailed from Malaysia, South Africa, Turkey, Palestine, Iran, and India,  including last year’s winner, Ali Ferzat, also from Syria.
Here in the United States we are experts in the knowledge that editorial cartooning is a dying art.  In other areas of the world, however, it is an art that people die for.
CRNI has been monitoring and assisting political cartoonists in trouble for the last 20 years.  They are often victims of failing regimes stamping out criticism, drug cartels squashing investigations, corporate interest protecting money and political manipulation, and religious zealots stamping out thinking.
About nine months ago young Akram Raslan was abducted from the offices of his newspaper and “disappeared” into the Syrian dictator Bashir al-Assad’s prisons for the next six months.  Readers might remember the case of Syrian cartoonist Ali Ferzat who in 2011 had his hands broken by the Syrian regime’s thugs. As they finished the job they told Ali that his broken hands would prevent him from disrespecting their master through his cartoons.  Ali Ferzat was lucky.  He survived the beating and eventually found safe haven in another Middle Eastern country.   His revenge was to live to draw again.
The hue and cry over this attack that grew from the world’s journalists and cartoonists must have made an impression on Bashir al-Assad. This time, a beating wasn’t enough. This time he decided to “disappear” the cartoonist permanently.
We learned in late May that Akram would be part of a show trial where he would be charged with various crimes including sedition and disrespecting the head of state.  The only evidence against him was his Facebook posted cartoons encouraging people to laugh at the dictator.  Aftedr his abduction, CRNI wrote a letter to the Syrian Ambassador in Washington, DC asking for his intervention in having Akram released.  We quickly learned that Akram’s trial would be postponed.  We breathed a sigh of relief until we learned that instead of being released additional charges of being a spy for the CIA and for Israel had been leveled against him.  In Syria, under the present circumstances, these charges are a death sentence.
Mark Twain once said, “Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.” Our social scientists and our humorists will argue for the next hundred years about the mechanics and effects of laughter on human behavior.  But one thing that Akram’s apparent death has demonstrated above all else, is how frightened the terrorists, the despots and the religious zealots are of people laughing at them.  Tyrants might be able to fight off criticism or an insurrection or even assassination attempt with truncheons, bullets and terror.  But where do they turn their guns to stop their people from laughing at them?  Can there be any more efficient, more powerful, and cost-effective way of empowering a people than dispelling their fears with a courageous cartoon on its way to letting them laugh through their fear?
It could be that Akram made a grave mistake in not running away sooner, or toning down the cartoons that he posted on his Facebook page.  When I asked one of our past Award winners, Malaysian cartoonist Zunar, why he didn’t take these avoidance actions in his own case, he faced me squarely and indignantly said, “This is my country. These tyrants have no more right to be here than I do”.   We are lucky here in the United States to have a long list of honorable, intelligent and articulate humorists who every day labor to pry open our heads and fill us with the courage to face our fears and prejudices.   We are lucky that an effective rule of law protects them.
Within the quagmire that has overtaken Syria and its people, it’s difficult to know if right and wrong are even discernible any longer.  One thing that Bashir al-Assad has proven is that on his way to protecting his own people and his own regime he is murdering Syria’s dreamers and stargazers.   Through the lives of people like Akram Raslan we are taught that it’s not only the soldier in the heat of battle who must be called upon to exhibit courage.
I am sorry I couldn’t reach down into the pit and drag you out  Akram.   Please forgive me.  Perhaps your sacrifice will motivate us to look again into the mirror, and ask again where we straddle the line between fear and courage and challenge us, again, to take a new first step.
Dr. Robert Russell
Executive Dir.
Cartoonists Rights Network International
10/7/13

 

 

 

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