Our CagleCartoonist from Turkey, Zehra Ömeroglu, was just acquitted! Zehra has been on trial for “obscenity” in Turkey, facing a possible sentence of three years in prison; she fled to Germany while the trial continued in her absence. You can see Zehra’s cartoons and bio on Cagle.com here: https://cagle.com/zehra
See Zehra tell her story and show her cartoon that got her arrested at 4:09 in the video below.
Also on the podcast are CagleCartoonist Emad Hajjaj, who was jailed in Jordan for a cartoon, and now lives in Virginia, along with Terry Anderson from CartoonistsRights.org.
This podcast is called “Jailed Cartoonists and the Cartoons that put them in JAIL.” I’ll do a followup podcast with Zehra soon and she’ll tell us about her last few months, about how she’s doing after the acquittal, and she’ll tell us about the new graphic novel she’s working on, about her five years on trial, threatened with years in prison in Turkey. Scary stuff!
