{"id":8741,"date":"2012-04-16T08:31:58","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T15:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=8741"},"modified":"2012-04-16T08:35:11","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T15:35:11","slug":"carlos-latuff-cartoons-upset-piss-ant-tyrant-score-for-latuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=8741","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Latuff Cartoons upset piss-ant tyrant &#8211; Score for Latuff!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ATTENTION! King Hamad\u2019s regime reacts about my cartoons on #Bahrain<\/strong><br \/>\n15April, 2012 &#8211; Latuff Cartoons<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/f1gas1-e1334194340850.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/f1gas1-e1334194340850.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"f1gas1\" width=\"425\" height=\"283\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8556\" \/><\/a> <strong>Street Art in Bahrain adapted from Carlos Latuff Political Cartoon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to a Twitter account supposedly held by the Information Affairs Authority (IAA) of Bahrain, of the regime of King Hamad, they are concerned about the \u201cjournalistic integrity\u201d displayed in my cartoons. In the messages, IAA states that my drawings \u201ctip over the limits\u201d of what is considered freedom of speech. It\u2019s curious that a government institution of Bahrain uses words like \u201cintegrity\u201d and \u201cfreedom of speech\u201d, which are values definitely not applied by Hamad\u2019s regime.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by Amnesty International, an organization accorded a great deal of integrity, Bahraini authorities \u201chad committed gross human rights violations with impunity, including the excessive use of force against protesters, widespread torture and other ill-treatment of protesters, unfair trials and unlawful killings.\u201c  <a href=\"http:\/\/latuffcartoons.wordpress.com\/2012\/04\/15\/attention-king-hamads-regime-reacts-about-my-cartoons-on-bahrain\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8230;more<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crookedbough.com%2F%3Fp%3D8741&amp;text=Carlos+Latuff+Cartoons+upset+piss-ant+tyrant+-+Score+for+Latuff%21&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATTENTION! King Hamad\u2019s regime reacts about my cartoons on #Bahrain 15April, 2012 &#8211; Latuff Cartoons Street Art in Bahrain adapted from Carlos Latuff Political Cartoon According to a Twitter account supposedly held by the Information Affairs Authority (IAA) of Bahrain, of the regime of King Hamad, they are concerned about the \u201cjournalistic integrity\u201d displayed in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=8741#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[2851],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8741"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8741"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8744,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8741\/revisions\/8744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}