{"id":35553,"date":"2017-10-15T22:03:34","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T02:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amnestypgh.org\/?p=35553"},"modified":"2017-11-09T22:21:02","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T03:21:02","slug":"group-39-focus-case-update-zunar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amnesty-pgh.org\/?p=35553","title":{"rendered":"Group 39 Focus Case Update (Zunar)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/amnesty-pgh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/zunar-Pak-Monggol-2-150x150.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"35559\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/amnesty-pgh.org\/?attachment_id=35559\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/amnesty-pgh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/zunar-Pak-Monggol-2-150x150.jpg?fit=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"150,150\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Zunar\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/amnesty-pgh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/zunar-Pak-Monggol-2-150x150.jpg?fit=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/amnesty-pgh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/zunar-Pak-Monggol-2-150x150.jpg?fit=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-35559\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/amnesty-pgh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/zunar-Pak-Monggol-2-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C150&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Political cartoonist\u00a0Zulkiflee Anwar Ulhaque, known as <strong>Zunar<\/strong>, faces nine charges under the Malaysian <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sedition_Act_1948\">Sedition Act<\/a> for tweets with political content he sent. The charges could carry a potential penalty of 43 years in prison. Furthermore, five of his books have been banned on the grounds that they are &#8220;detrimental to the public order.&#8221; After being arrested in 2016, Zunar has been released on bail while awaiting his court date.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themalaysianinsight.com\/s\/18369\/\"><strong>travel ban<\/strong><\/a> has been imposed on Zunar in October 2016 without justification. He has challenged the ban and his case is scheduled to be heard by the High Court on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themalaysianinsight.com\/s\/18459\/\">16 November 2017<\/a>. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/download\/Documents\/ASA2866972017ENGLISH.pdf\">Statement by Amnesty International on travel bans<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>In September 2017, the U.N. Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural studies, Karima Bennoune, visited Malaysia. In her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/EN\/NewsEvents\/Pages\/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=22121&amp;LangID=E\">preliminary report<\/a> after the visit, she raises the issue of the Sedition Act charges and travel ban against Zunar and calls for both to be dropped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political cartoonist\u00a0Zulkiflee Anwar Ulhaque, known as Zunar, faces nine charges under the Malaysian Sedition Act for tweets with political content he sent. The charges could carry a potential penalty of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amnesty-pgh.org\/?p=35553\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Group 39 Focus Case Update (Zunar)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-chapters","category-updates"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amnesty-pgh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amnesty-pgh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amnesty-pgh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amnesty-pgh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amnesty-pgh.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35553"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/amnesty-pgh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35565,"href":"https:\/\/amnesty-pgh.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35553\/revisions\/35565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amnesty-pgh.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amnesty-pgh.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amnesty-pgh.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}