Singapore bans book about censorship for including Charlie Hebdo cartoons
By DW
06 November 2021 |
2:50 pm
The book about censorship was banned over "offensive images" containing cartoons depicting the Muslim Prophet Muhammad. The cartoons were the same ones published in the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo in 2015.
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