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Malaysia’s sedition crackdown continues, political cartoonist held

Malaysia’s sedition crackdown continues, political cartoonist held

Nov 29, 2016
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Political cartoonist Zunar, who has for months defied Prime Minister Najib Razak with a stinging series of almost-daily cartoons, is free after having been arrested for putting on a show of his work in Penang that was trashed by a pro-government mob that punched him and roughed him up.

The 54-year-old Zunar, whose name is Zulkiflee SM Anwarul Haque, is w…

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