PARIS (Siwel) – On the eve of the release of the new issue of Charlie Hebdo, we learn that two cartoonists have joined Charlie Hebdo. René Pétillon and the Kabyle Ali Dilem who is sentenced to nine years inprisonment in Algeria
The genius cartoonist is contributing to the newspaper Liberté, Ali Dilem also works for the french broadcast TV5.
Islamist groups which Dilem outlines mercilessly continue to threaten him to death …
The Algerian government harassed him constantly, his cartoons against Bouteflika earned him no less than sixty trials including 26 of them still pending…
Dilem, 47, was awarded nearly twenty international awards. He is one of the 103 members of the Cartooning for Peace Foundation, founded at the UN initiative, which works to promote freedom of expression around the world. In the aftermath of Charlie Hebdo attack, the Kabyle’* cartoonist described the event as “extreme barbarism.”
René Pétillon, 70, also joined Charlie Hebdo, creator of the iconic character Jack Palmer. He is a collaborator of the Canard Enchaîné, another French satirical newspaper founded one century ago.
wbw / zp Siwel 241312 February 15
* Dilem is unquestionably Kabyle but he define himself as an Algerian cartoonist.
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