Officially participated and attending in 37th Göteborg International Film Festival

Göteborg International Film Festival is the biggest film festival in Scandinavia as well as one of the biggest audience festivals in the world. We will participate in this great event officially by the our first collective cartoon expo "Sketch Freedom" and I will be present during the festival as the curator of our project

Sketch Freedom cartoon expo hosted by 37th International Goteborg film festival

Poster design by Kianoush Ramezani | Cartoon by Damien Glez

Founded by Kianoush Ramezani, Iranian exiled cartoonist in France, Sketch Freedom is a World movement to support and popularize freedom of expression and exiled cartoonists. Sketch Freedom Cartoon Expo hosted by 37th Göteborg International Film Festival, presented at the Regional State Archives in Gothenburg and curated by Kianoush shows a collective artworks made by cartoonists of New Yorker, Courrier International and other world main journals to dedicate the value of freedom of expression.

Sketch Freedom är en internationell rörelse som uppmärksammar och stödjer satirtecknare i exil och deras kamp för yttrandefrihet. 37th Göteborg International Film Festival presenterar stolt Sketch Freedom Cartoon Expo som är en samutställning kurerad av rörelsens grundare Kianoush Ramezani, iransk satirtecknare i exil, verksam i Paris. Utställningen, som du kan ta del av i Landsarkivets lokaler, visar verk som manifesterar värdet av yttrandefrihet, skapade av tecknare knutna till bland annat The New Yorker, Courrier International och andra internationella tidningar och tidskrifter.

Utställningen håller öppet mån-fre kl 10.00-16.00 och lör kl 10.00-14.00. Torsdagen den 23 januari kl 18.00 invigs utställningen med vernissagefest på Landsarkivet, Arkivgatan 9A. Sketch Freedom Cartoon Expo pågår fram till den 8 februari 2014.

For two French journalists murdered in Mali

Reporters Without Borders is appalled by the abduction and murder of two French journalists, Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon, today in the northern city of Kidal. They worked for Radio France Internationale.

“The summary execution of these two RFI journalists is vile and unspeakable,” Reporters Without Borders secretary-general Christophe Deloire said. “We feel both outrage and disgust that journalists who had the courage to cover an area such as the Kidal region were shot in cold blood after interviewing someone.

“We grieve for them, their families and their RFI colleagues, we are concerned for the residents of the Ifoghas massif, whose plight deserves to be covered, and we condemn this double murder, which sadly highlights the lawlessness still prevailing in northern Mali. This act was not only criminal but also terrorist in nature, one designed to deter outside media coverage.”

Dupont and Verlon were kidnapped and shot after conducting an interview in Kidal. Their bodies were found about 10 km from the town centre. Their fate recalls that of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, decapitated by his abductors in Pakistan in 2002, and Italian journalist Enzo Baldoni, kidnapped and executed in Iraq in 2004.

Today’s double murder is another unfortunate example of the growing violence to which journalists are exposed. No fewer than 88 were killed in the course of their work in 2012. This was the worst toll since Reporters Without Borders began keep an annual tally in 1995.

A total of 45 journalists have been killed worldwide since the start of 2013. Four French journalists have been killed in Syria since the start of the uprising in March 2011.

Mali was ranked 99th in the 2013 Reporters Without Borders press freedom index, a fall of 74 places from its position in 2012.

http://en.rsf.org/mali-two-french-journalists-murdered-in-03-11-2013,45413.html