Aseem Trivedi

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Aseem Trivedi

Aseem Trivedi (born February 17, 1987 in Shuklaganj) is an Indian political cartoonist and activist .

Life

Aseem Trivedi was born in Shuklaganj in the Unnao district near Kanpur in India. He began his work as a freelance cartoonist and worked for various newspapers and magazines that appeared in Hindi . In 2011 he joined the Cartoons Against Corruption movement to support them with his artistic work. He also showed his anti-corruption cartoons on his website, which was then blocked. His caricatures were viewed as an insult to Parliament and sparked heated debates there. Reporters Without Borders wrote that action of this kind would undermine the greatest democracy. After his website was blocked, Trivedi and other activists founded the Save Your Voice movement , which quickly met with great public interest. Through the protests in various cities, they achieved a nationwide debate on the freedom of the Internet. The high point of the resistance, in which many writers, artists and musicians took part, was the arrest of the academic Ambikesh Mahapatra , who published cartoons about a Bengali minister on the Internet. Aseem Trivedi then went on a seven-day hunger strike with the journalist Alok Dixit .

On September 9, 2012, Asem Trivedi was arrested in Mumbai for incitation and public agitation. He waived his bail release as long as the charges against him were not dropped. Trivedi was announced as a recipient of the Virginia State Courage in Editorial Cartooning Award . The award is intended to recognize his extraordinary courage and efforts to draw the public's attention to the corruption in the Indian political system and censorship.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Times of India v. January 7, 2012
  2. ^ The Wall Street Journal, India v. 4th January 2012
  3. ↑ RSF v. March 12, 2012
  4. ↑ RSF v. May 12, 2012 ( Memento from October 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ The Indian Express v. September 10, 2012
  6. ^ Cartoonists Rights Network International v. September 5, 2012 ( Memento from September 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Trivedi, Aseem
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian cartoonist and activist
DATE OF BIRTH 17th February 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Shuklaganj