Akram Raslan was a Syrian political cartoonist and human rights activist. His cartoons mainly expressed criticism of the regime of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, and also of the United Nations. He was the winner of the Award for Courage in Editorial Cartooning from the Cartoonists Rights Network in 2013. Raslan, who devoted all his time to the Syrian revolution, was arrested in October 2012 from his workplace at al-Fida newspaper in Hama. It was confirmed in 2015 that Raslan had died as the results of torture in a government detention center back in 2013.
