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Syrian forces beat up political cartoonist Ali Ferzat.

Ferzat, who had become increasingly critical of Bashar al-Assad's regime was found bleeding at side of Damascus road. The world-renowned cartoonist has a history of eliciting the wrath of authorities. Masked gunmen dragged Syria's best-known political cartoonist from his car before dawn, broke both his hands and left him bleeding along the side of a road days after he compared Syria's president to Moammar Gaddafi.

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ASSAD'S THUGS BREAK SYRIAN CARTOONIST'S HANDS

.. For making me LOOK BAD

2400 killed in crackdown

Ali Farzat

Syria Cartoonist Ali Ferzat Bashar Assad

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