Syrian masked gunmen break political cartoonist Ali Ferzat's hands as 'warning'

BEIRUT - 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. He lay badly bruised in a hospital bed Thursday ...

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