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Iqbal Masih

Punjabi, Urdu: اقبال مسیح‎
Muridke, Pakistan 1983 - Muridke 1995
Pakistani child who became a symbol of abusive child labor in the developing world
(Wikipedia)

Pablo-Luís Tejera Romero
2003

Description

Wrought Iron statue of Iqbal Masih holding in his right arm a book and pulling with his lift arm a child. The holes in the back of Masih refer to his murder.
In the two other copies of this statue on Gran Canaria, he holds the book in his outstretched hand. It is possible that this statue is deformed.

Telde - Iqbal Masih

Inscription(s)

a iqbal masih
mártir de la lucha contra
la esclavitud infantil
1-10-1983 + 16-4-1995

To Iqbal Masih
Martyr of the struggle against
child slavery

1-10-1983 - 16-4-1995

Annotation

The identical statue is in three towns on Gran Canaria: Telde, Vecindario, and Vega de San Mateo (click tag "Masih, Iqbal" below), and in mainland Spain also in Córdoba.

Sculptor

Pablo-Luís Tejera Romero (Cádiz 1957), Spanish sculptor.

Sources & Information

La Estrella que nos guia, Telde.
Ana María Quesada Acosta, La nueva escultura pública de Gran Canaria (1995-2006): Aportaciones para su estudio. XVII Coloquio de historia canario-americano, p. 1399-1415. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria: Cabildo Insular de Gran Canaria, 2006 (PDF on-line).
TeldeActualidad, 24 June 2008, El núcleo histórico de San Juan atesora gran parte de las esculturas figurativas y monumentales de Telde.

Locatie (N 28°0'10" - W 15°24'45") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: esca250; Photograph: 10 January 2015
Of each statue we made photos from various angles and also detail photos of the various texts.
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