Facebook Pulls Down Pro-Afzal Guru Cartoon; Twitteratti Angered

Twitteratti reacts to Facebook’s pulling down of cartoonist Mir Suhail’s artwork commemorating Afzal Guru’s hanging.

Facebook pulled down cartoonist Mir Suhail artwork involving Afzal Guru’s hanging for the 2001 attack on the Indian Parliament. The cartoonist took to rival social media platform Twitter to protest against this move.

Facebook Removed my Cartoon pic.twitter.com/TlIt4ky6NT

— MIR Suhail (@mirsuhail) February 9, 2016

Suhail also said that Facebook blocked him permanently from posting any such content. This move by the social networking site has evoked a lot of responses from other Twitter users.

Afraid of the living and the dead; the free and the imprisoned; the writers and the fighters. And now cartoons too. https://t.co/6ijMKMixZa

— faysal (@_Faysal) February 9, 2016

The cartoon showed roots of a tree named Kashmir uniting with roots growing out of Afzal Guru’s grave. Guru was hanged on this day, three years ago.

@mirsuhail shameful. You are making a non violent political point. They have no right to do that. When you get a chance, post it again.

— Gul-Fraz Nawaz (@GulFrazNawaz) February 9, 2016

Media person Majid Pandit also raised a voice of protest against this.

Muzzle the voices,
stone the mirrors
that show you
your bloody deeds.. https://t.co/RqhOJSz1xi

— Majid Pandit (@majidpandit) February 9, 2016

Writer Sahir Bilal in his protest said “Even memories are seditious in Kashmir” in his tweet.

This cartoon by Kashmiri cartoonist Mir Suhail has been blocked by Facebook. Even memories are seditious in Kashmir. pic.twitter.com/nIqEDyzX70

— Sahir Bilal (@sahirbilaldar) February 9, 2016

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