Sunday, January 22, 2017
Bariş Inan POLITICAL CARTOONIST IN PRISON SUED AGAIN FOR DRAWING ERDOGAN
Bariş Inan POLITICAL
CARTOONIST IN PRISON SUED AGAIN
FOR DRAWING ERDOGAN
Bariş Inan, a political cartoonist whose works have been published in
the GUNDEM newspaper and our
magazine HOMUR, and who has been serving an aggravated life imprisonment
in the Izmit-Kandira F-type Prison, has been sued for drawing the Turkish
president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as a baby in diapers. His trial will be heard on
January 31- 2017, Tuesday, at the criminal court of first
instance in Izmit-Kandira. Political powers behind this legal/judicial? action
seem to be attempting to break new ground by suing a person that is already
serving an aggravated life imprisoment sentence, who they have never considered
to release at all. We strongly believe that this new lawsuit is an attack on
the world of caricature, as well as on free speech and communication, and thus
feel it is our duty to announce it to the public.
HOMUR
Caricature and Humor Group