Malaysian Cartoonist in the Crosshairs of Increasingly Repressive Government
Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin has used the coronavirus pandemic as a pretext to arm himself with emergency powers and silence dissenting voices.
April 30, 2021
The political cartoonist Zunar speaks at a conference in Seoul, South Korea, in October 2018.
Credit: Flickr/Khairil Yusof
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The gadfly political cartoonist Zunar is again facing a police probe in Malaysia over a satirical drawing that mocked a senior official, he said this week, a few days after a performance artist was arrested for insulting the country’s queen. In a statement to the press, Zunar (real name Zulkiflee Anwar Ul Haque) said that police in the northern state of Kedah had summoned him to appear on May 2.