black & white: issue 2 (july, 2015)

A Cartoon Against Every Lash: Cartoon #26 to #35 from se-ries of 50 cartoons supporting Raif Badawi, a famous blogger jailed in Saudi Arabia.

Curse of Vyapam: A series of 10 cartoons on the deadliest scam in the history of India. 10 Cartoons against the recent attacks on journalists in India

Issue 2 | Jul 2015

Strokes of Resistance

Black & White I see cartooning as a tool of change and love to use it for differ-ent campaigns & movements.`Black & White’ is an effort to give it a proper shape. 'B&W' will try its best to highlight an issue by publish-ing a series of cartoons and by circulating them as much as possible. The focus will be on human rights defenders, bloggers, writers and journalists who are being targeted for their works and B&W will use cartoons to run some support campaigns for them.

In this second issue of B&W, I'm publishing sets of 10 cartoons on three different issues. First, the flogging of raif badawi. Second, the recent attacks on the indian journalists. Third, Vyapam, one of the deadliest ttacks in the history of India. Aseem Trivedi

Independent Cartoonist

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A Cartoon Against Every Lash 'A Cartoon against Every Lash' is a series of 50 cartoons sup-porting Raif Badawi as a symbolic protest to the 50 lashes, he was flogged publicly on Jan 9.

Raif Badawi is a Saudi Arabian writer and activist and the creator of the website Free Saudi Liberals. He was arrested in 2012 on a charge of insulting Islam through electronic channels and brought to court on several charges including apostasy. He was sentenced to seven years in prison and 600 lashes in 2013, then resentenced to 1000 lashes and ten years in prison plus a fine in 2014.

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10 Cartoons Against Recent Attacks on Indian Journalists

Two journalists in India died this month after being set on fire. In the first case, Jagendra Singh, a freelance journalist from the Shahjahanpur district in Uttar Pradesh, was allegedly set on fire for his reporting. Police have reg-istered a murder case against several officers, other men and state dairy de-velopment minister Ram Murti Singh Verma.

Singh, who operated a Facebook page called “Shahjahanpur Samachar” (Shahjahanpur News), uploaded posts regarding the alleged involvement of the minster in illegal mining and land grabbing. Verma, along with others, has been named in the first information report (FIR) although a forensic report suggested that Singh might have burned himself.

In the second, a Madhya Pradesh journalist Sandip Kothari was kidnapped and later burned to death, allegedly by the mining mafia.

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The Curse of #VyapamThe Vyapam scam is an admission and recruitment scam involv-ing politicians, senior officials and businessmen in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. A number of people connected to the scam and its investigation, died during the course of investigation. The opposition parties and activists alleged that several of these deaths happened under suspicious circumstances. In 2015, the Spe-cial Task Force (STF) submitted a list to High Court, naming 23 people who are believed to have died "unnatural death". According to the STF, most of these deaths took place before it took over the investigation in July 2013. Some media reports claimed that 40+ people associated with the scam had died under mysterious cirum-stances.

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'Black & White' is created by Aseem Trivedi, an independent cartoonist from India. His website was banned by Mumbai Police in 2011 and followed by the arrest in Mumbai in charges of sedition, related to the content of his work in 2012. He was co-recipient of the "Courage in Editorial Cartooning Award 2012" of Virginia based 'Cartoonists Rights Network Inter-national' along with Syrian cartoonist Ali Ferzat. He was also nominated for the Freedom of Expression Awards 2013 by free speech organization Index on Censorship. He was also a contestant in Indian TV reality show Bigg Boss.

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