London-based Al-Quds Al-Arabi paper has quoted news about a statement issued by the Syrian League for Human Rights asking the Syrian regime to reveal the fate of the detained cartoonist after the circulation of news about his death as a result of torture. The League expressed in the statement of "Their extreme concern at the news about the possibility of the death of the Syrian cartoonist Akram Rslan" due to torture in a security forces branch of the Syrian regime. Additionally, the statement pointed out that the League couldn't "confirm this news yet," adding that "Rslan subjected to the most heinous physical and psychological torture."
The original source of the news about the possibility of murdering the cartoonist Akram Rslan under torture was a report posted on the website of the International League for Cartoonist Rights based in the United States of America by its chairman Dr. Robert Russell.
The report published on the website of the Cartoonists Rights Network International
detailed that the assassination of Rslan along with a number of other activists, including musicians and artists, was from private sources described to be unconfirmed, to come back and assert that their sources, which were described to be reliable, quoted that Akram Rslan was buried with another group of people in a place near Damascus, after he was executed by the Vice President Assistant Mohammad Nassif Kheir Bek,.
Many pages are in solidarity with the detained cartoonist picked disproof to the news of the death of the cartoonist, describing it as a rumor, without explaining the source of this disproof.
It is worth mentioning that the Cartoonists Rights Network International has granted the International Courage Award in cartoon for the year 2013 to the cartoonist Akram Rslan, while we do not know whether he had picked such news of the award or not.
Arab Cartoon House Website has launched a campaign across Avaz site claiming to reveal the fate of the detained cartoonist via the following links:
The campaign in Arabic
The campaign in English
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