(CRN/IFEX) – The following is a 27 January 2004 CRN statement: Burke, VA January 27, 2004 American cartoonist Ann Telnaes, winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in editorial cartooning, has received a series of emails threatening her, most likely for a cartoon depicting an Iraqi Islamic cleric, the Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani. Sistani is pushing […]
(CRN/IFEX) – The following is a 27 January 2004 CRN statement:
Burke, VA
January 27, 2004
American cartoonist Ann Telnaes, winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in editorial cartooning, has received a series of emails threatening her, most likely for a cartoon depicting an Iraqi Islamic cleric, the Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani. Sistani is pushing Coalition Administrator Paul Bremer to hold direct elections and end the US’s strategy to hand over Iraqi sovereignty through a regional caucus process.
The cartoon has appeared in “The Iranian: Satire, Cartoon” web site: http://www.iranian.com/Satire/Cartoon/2004/January/turban.html.
One of the threatening emails says the sender is from Saudi Arabia and ends with “enjoy as much as you can, your end will be worest (sic).”
Other emails are obscene and warn her not to continue to draw cartoons that depict Muslim women.
The Cartoonists Rights Network advised Telnaes on what security options she may have to protect herself here in the US, including contacting the Federal Bureau of Investigation and their terrorism interest division.
