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Cypher Comics

In July 2020, Front Line Defenders launched Cypher (@cypher_comics on Instagram), a digital comics magazine that advances the organization’s storytelling and narrative framing work in collaboration with and in support of HRDs. Working with artists from around the world, including the award-winning visual storyteller, Beldan Sezen, as creative director, the ’zine is a monthly publication featuring stories of HRDs, their work and the challenges they face.

If you are interested in an annual subscription to receive printed editions of Cypher, please email campaigns@frontlinedefenders.org, with 'Subscription' in the subject line, and you will be sent more information about options. We are close to finalizing printing arrangements and pricing options.

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Cypher - Edition 17

Mexico
HRD - Javier & María del Tránsito
Artist - Martha Muñoz Aristizabal
Sudan
HRDs - Ameira Osman
Artist - Mala z Abdullah
Zimbabwe
HRD - ARTU Z
Artist - Mudiwa Kimberly Marasa
Afghanistan
HRD - Liah Jawad
Artist - Sayed Mohammad Hussaini

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Uganda
HRD - Christopher Opio
Artist - Christian Mugarura Mafigiri
Nepal
HRDs - Bidya Shrestha Maharjan
Artist - Promina
Peru
HRD - Máxima Acuña de Chaupe
Artist - Jon Sack

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Ecuador
HRD - Josefina Tunki
Artist - Ce Larrea
Algeria
HRDs - Mohad Gasmi
Artist - Mohammed Cherkaoui
Democratic Republic of Congo
HRD - Sex Worker Rights Defenders
Artist - Adolphe Funda Kizungu

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Sierra Leone
HRD - Aminata Fabba
Artist - Ahmed Sahid Nasralla
Cambodia
HRDs - Mother Nature Cambodia
Artist - Beldan Sezen
Brazil
HRD - Camila Moradia
Artist - Wallace Bidu
Belarus
HRDs - Siarhei Drazdouski & Aleh Hrableuski
Artist - Anonymous
Portugal
HRD - Mamadou Ba
Artist - Nancy Saphira
Palestine
HRDs - Sami & Sameeha Huraini
Artist - Mohamed Tayeb

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Ukraine
HRDs - Legalife-Ukraine & SWAN
Artist - Maria Sweeney

Australia
HRDs - Vixen Collective
Artist - Katie Fricas

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Democratic Republic of Congo
HRDs - Joseph Itongwa
Artist - Asimba Bathy

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Brazil
HRDs - José Claudio Ribeiro, Maria do Espirito Santo, Claudelice Santos
Artist - Ty Silva
Chile
HRDs - Nora Ñancul, Gricel Ñancul, Onesima Lienqueo
Artist - Marcella Trujillo

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Myanmar
Artist 1 - anonymous
Artist 2 - Sina Wittayawiroj
Palestine
Artist - Samir Harb
Colombia
Artist - Lucas Ospina

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Turkey
HRD - rumeysa özüyağlı
Artist - Betül Yılmaz
Brazil
HRD - Frenando dos Santos Araújo, José Vargas Sobrinho Junior
Artist - Mandy Barros

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Mongolia
HRD - OTWatch
Artist - Jon Sack
Zambia
HRD - Elijah Chisombo
Artist - Anonymous
Morocco
HRD - Imider
Artist - Anonymous
Turkey
HRD - Artvin, Nur Neşe Karahan
Artist - Beldan Sezen

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Mexico
HRD - Lorena Gutiérrez Rangel
Artist - Eréndira Derbez & Estudio Plumbago
Laos
HRD - Houayheuang Xayabouly (Muay)
Artist - Kori Song
Azerbaijan
HRD - Gülnara Mehdiyeva
Artist - Madina Zholdybekova

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Tunisia
HRD - Saadia Mosbeh
Artist - Moez Tabia & Nada Dagdoug
Portugal
HRD - Mamadou Ba - SOS Racismo
Artist - Nuno Saraiva
Uruguay
HRD - Mizangas
Artist - Mikaela Sánchez
Sudan
HRD - Khalid Al-Baih
Artist - Joseph Bergen
Japan
HRDs - Black Lives Matter - Tokyo
Artist - Mmyoi

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Tonga
HRD - 'Ofa Guttenbeil
Artist - Natasha Natarajan
Transnistria/Moldova
HRD - Resonance Center
Artist - Maria Sweeney
Zimbabwe
HRDs - Beatrice Savadye
Artist - Lomedy Mhako
Argentina
HRD - Mekfoula Mint Brahim
Artist - Lia Copello

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Sri Lanka
HRD - Juwairiya Mohideen
Artist - Isuri
Armenia
HRD - Lara Aharonian
Artist - Armine Shahbazyan
Iraq
HRDs - Women Human Rights Defenders
Artist - Mays Yasser
Mauritania
HRD - Mekfoula Mint Brahim
Artist - Cooldji.Designed
Colombia
HRDs - Guardia Indígena del Cauca
Artist - Michael Guetio

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India 1
HRDs - Anti-CAA protesters
Artist - Neelima
India 2
HRDs - HRDs in Bhima Koregaon case
Artist - "Just Some Regular Cowards"
Italy
HRDs - No-TAP Movement
Artist - Bambi Kramer
Nicaragua
HRD - 'Jorge Maldonado'
Artist - Sacha Lebákov

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Cypher 02 features an audio interview with Palestinian HRD and artist Hafez Omar - listen to the interview by clicking on the 'Hafez Talks' buttons when viewing the comcis in the 'zine viewer below (the PDF file does not support the audio files).

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Palestine
HRD - Hafez Omar
Artist - Hafez Omar
Puerto Rico
HRD - Shariana Ferrer-Núñez
Artist - Rosa Colón Guerra
Hong Kong
HRD - Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China
Artist - A. Li

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Kenya
HRD - Ruth Mumbi
Artist - Nomes Dee
Pakistan
HRD - Idris Khattak
Artist - anonymous
Lebanon
HRD - Egna Legna
Artist - Pascale Ghazaly
Brazil
HRD - Rosa Luz
Artist - Lyvia Emanuelly

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