Compounded by Series of Government Missteps India Political Cartoonist Jailed Showing Weakness

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Indian artist jailed for anticorruption cartoons

The Christian Science Monitor

A political cartoonist in India has been arrested on charges of sedition, violating an online content law, and insulting national honor for a series of cartoons sharply critical of corruption in the government. Aseem Trivedi’s arrest Saturday took place nine months after he displayed the cartoons.

An Indian court on Monday sent a cartoonist to jail to await trial on sedition charges over sketches that lampoon government corruption, triggering an outcry from freedom of expression campaigners. The detention of Aseem Trivedi, a freelance artist whose cartoons include parliament.