16.01.2016 - 19:28 [ rfi.fr ]

Paris press freedom fund-raiser auction scrapped under Israeli pressure

French newspaper Libération and press-freedom campigners Reporters Without Borders (RSF) have cancelled a fund-raising auction because Israel‘s Paris embassy demanded that one of the works be excluded. Auctioneers Artcurial had agreed to withdraw an artist‘s reworking of a Libération front page that compared jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti to Nelson Mandela.