Posts Tagged ‘ Cartoonist Arif ’

A cartoon by Arifur Rahman.
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Only ten months ago the so called cartoon blasphemy incident shocked many Bangladeshis. The Bangladeshi media tried to bury the episode and many of us may have forgotten the incident as well as the victim, the cartoonist Arif. E-Bangladesh traced him and published an exclusive interview of him on 27 of May 2008. Recently...
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His eyes spoke otherwise, betraying the expressions. Mohammad Arifur Rahman put every effort to show that he was in comfort, yet the eyes divulged he was scared. And he had reasons to be! From a prodigy without any academic training, Arif went to be a National prizewinner cartoonist. Months later he was again in...
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Cartoonist Arifur Rahman has been freed from jail Thursday night, hours after a Dhaka court had ordered his release. Deputy inspector general of prisons Major Shamsul Haider Siddiqui said Arif was freed at 7.30pm when jail authorities received the court order. Earlier a Dhaka court on asked the authorities concerned to free Arifur Rahman, a cartoonist, who was...
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