Syrian Cartoonist Beaten After Mocking Assad

Syria’s most acclaimed political cartoonist was severely beaten yesterday, not long after he published a cartoon that showed Bashar al-Assad hightailing it out of town with Moammar Gadhafi, the New York Times reports. Masked gunmen grabbed Ali Farzat off the streets of Damascus at about 4:30am, activists said. They…

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Syrian Cartoonist Beaten After Mocking Assad

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