The death of Akram Raslan, an artist known for his political cartoons, at the hands of the government of Syria brought condemnation from various publications around the world.
While the cartoonist died in 2013, partial confirmation of the facts around the event were not released until 2015.
[1] Akram Raslan was born in the Syrian city of Hama in 1974.
[2] Since the Syrian Civil War, along with many of Syria's artists, poets, writers and activists, Raslan remained incarcerated.
[1] The news service Albawaba.com ran an article commenting that the "story of Raslan's detainment has become a disturbingly common one for Syrian dissidents.