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Aug 28, 2011 Comments Off by

Syrian gunmen break artist’s hands as ‘warning’

A renowned political cartoonist whose drawings expressed Syrians’ frustrated hopes for change was grabbed after he left his studio early Thursday and beaten by masked gunmen who broke his hands and dumped him on a road outside Damascus.One of Syria’s most famous artists, Ali Ferzat, 60, earned international …

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