Syrian Cartoonist Has Hands Broken As Warning To Anti-Assad Activists

26 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone in Celebrities, Politics, Vibe, World

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You should know about this.  Ali Ferzat, an immensely popular Syrian cartoonist and outspoken critic of President Bashar al-Assad’s violent crackdown on the opposition, has been beaten, burned, and had both of his hands broken by masked gunmen, as a warning to cease his anti-Assad activism.

It would seem that Ferzat, was dragged out of his car and abducted by the unidentified men, driven to an airport road in the outskirts of Damascus. There, he was beaten, burned, had a bag thrown over his head and was tossed from the vehicle.

According to Ferzat’s son, the thugs who broke Ferzat’s hands said they were doing so “to teach him not to draw against his ‘masters’.”

In spite of this, Rami Abdul-Rahman of the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told the Associated Press the attackers’ identity “could not be confirmed.”

According to the UN, at least 2,200 people have been killed by Syrian forces in the past 5 months.

[Source: MSNBC]

 

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