{"id":8922,"date":"2015-09-11T11:27:23","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T10:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cartooningforpeace.org\/en\/?p=8922"},"modified":"2015-09-11T11:27:23","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T10:27:23","slug":"malaysian-cartoonist-zunar-faces-43-years-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cartooningforpeace.org\/en\/malaysian-cartoonist-zunar-faces-43-years-in-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysian Cartoonist Zunar faces 43 years in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysian Cartoonist Zunar was taking in questioning by police on February 11 because of 9 tweets criticizing government and a cartoon in support of political opponent Anwar Ibrahim.<\/p>\n<p>Zunar is now facing 43 years in prison on\u00a0nine charges of sedition : his case will begin on May, 20.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Over the past months, Malaysian authorities have intensified their use of the Sedition Act, a colonial-era law that criminalizes criticism of the government, to target peaceful dissidents\u201d<\/em>, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/articles\/news\/2014\/09\/malaysia-sedition-investigation-opposition-leader-politically-motivated\/\" target=\"_blank\">Amnesty International.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/prime-minister-of-malaysia-government-of-malaysia-withdraw-all-charges-against-political-cartoonist-zunar\" target=\"_blank\">Petition online to support Zunar<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysian Cartoonist Zunar was taking in questioning by police on February 11 because of 9 tweets criticizing government and a cartoon in support of political opponent Anwar Ibrahim. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8923,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartooningforpeace.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8922"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartooningforpeace.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartooningforpeace.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartooningforpeace.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartooningforpeace.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartooningforpeace.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8924,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartooningforpeace.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8922\/revisions\/8924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartooningforpeace.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartooningforpeace.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartooningforpeace.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartooningforpeace.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}