Ali Ferzat, Syria
“Break his arms so that he doesn’t ever draw again.”
In this 2013 piece by CNN columnist John Sutter, Syrian political cartoonist Ali Ferzat describes a 2011 near-death beating that he received from people he believes were henchmen of the Syrian regime.
Ferzat says they targeted his hands to stop him drawing cartoons critical of Syria’s leader, Bashar al-Assad.
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