Posted on 03/08/2006 5:25:03 PM PST by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
Yemeni prosecutors have called for a newspaper editor to be sentenced to death for showing cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad, his paper says.
Muhammad al-Asadi was arrested after his publication, the Yemen Observer, showed the Danish cartoons in February.
He denies the charges of offending Islam, under which he is being tried.
The English-language newspaper has had its licence to publish suspended, although its staff have continued to produce material online.
Prosecutors reportedly requested that the Yemen Observer be closed permanently and have its property and assets confiscated.
The paper's website reported that the prosecution lawyers cited precedents from Muslim history when the prophet was insulted by a woman and then praised her killer.
The trial was adjourned until 22 March.
Ping
Yemen... often cited as the perfect example of a moderate Islamic state, by apologists...
Just like the UAE??
One brave fellow.
ROP is now ROJ! Really!
ROJ = Religion of Jihad
MEMRITV.org - Video Clip (with Transcript) #1049: "FILM SEMINAR ON IRANIAN TV: Tom and Jerry - A Jewish Conspiracy to Improve the Image of Mice, because Jews Were Termed "Dirty Mice' in Europe" ("Iran, Channel 4 - 2/19/2006")
MEMRI.org - Special Dispatch Series - No. 1089 "Sheikh Al-Qaradhawi Responds to Cartoons of Prophet Muhammad: Whoever is Angered and Does Not Rage in Anger is a Jackass - We are Not a Nation of Jackasses" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "In a February 3, 2006 Friday sermon, Sheikh Yousef Al-Qaradhawi, who is head of the European Council for Fatwa and Research, president of the International Association of Muslim Scholars (IAMS), and the spiritual guide of many other Islamist organizations across the world (including the Muslim Brotherhood), exhorted worshippers to show rage to the world over the Danish paper Jylland Posten's publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad. The sermon was aired on Qatar TV on February 3, 2006.") (February 9, 2006)
News.BBC.co.uk: "CARTOON PROTESTER WAS DRUG DEALER" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "A Muslim demonstrator who imitated a suicide bomber in London to protest over cartoons satirising the Prophet Muhammad is a convicted drug dealer. Omar Khayam, 22, of Bedford, was jailed in 2002 and released on licence last year after serving half of his sentence for dealing heroin and cocaine.") (Last updated February 7, 2006)
BRUSSELS JOURNAL.com: "'THE WAR IS ON'" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Yesterday (Thursday) Mullah Krekar, the alleged leader of the Islamist group Ansar al-Islam who has been living in Norway as a refugee since 1991, said that the publication of the Muhammad cartoons was a declaration of war. "The war has begun," he told Norwegian journalists. Mr Krekar said Muslims in Norway are preparing to fight. "It does not matter if the governments of Norway and Denmark apologize, the war is on.") (February 3, 2006)
ISLAMONLINE.net: Cairo - "WARNINGS CARTOONS RISK VIOLENCE" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The blasphemous cartoons of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) by a Danish daily and other European newspapers are risking to trigger acts of violence around the world, officials and commentators warn.") (February 2, 2006)
BRUSSELS JOURNAL.com: "OUR LADY OF CULTURAL DIFFERENCES" -from the Desk of Paul Belien (September 22, 2005)
INFOVLAD.net: "NEXT TARGET - DENMARK?" (October 15, 2005)
ROPMA
Yemen Jails Journalist Over Blasphemous Cartoons
Khaled Al-Mahdi, Arab News
SANAA, 26 November 2006 A Yemeni court yesterday sentenced an editor to one year in prison and imposed a six-month ban on his weekly newspaper for reprinting controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him).
Kamal Al-Olufi, editor in chief of the Al-Rai Al-Aam newspaper was found guilty of publishing blasphemous material.
The drawings, first published by the Danish Jyllands-Posten newspaper in September last year, were seen in the Muslim world as blasphemously depicting the prophet and triggered protests throughout the Muslim world.
Olufi was taken to jail shortly after the verdict was pronounced.
He and editors of English-language Yemen Observer and the Arabic-language Al-Hurya weeklies had originally been brought before the court in mid-February and charged with publishing blasphemous drawings offending the Prophet and Islamic religion.
Yemeni law prohibits the dissemination of any material seen as offending religions.
Meanwhile, 13 men reportedly having links to Al-Qaeda terrorist activities have escaped from a prison in northwestern Yemen, it was reported yesterday.
The report by the Ray News website said the 13 were suspected members of Al-Qaeda and that they escaped from a jail in the Haja province, some 130 kilometers northeast of Sanaa. Some of the escapees held Arab nationalities, said the report.
Interior Ministry officials confirmed the reported escape, but they told Arab News that the jail breakers were not detained over terror-related charges. Five had been recaptured over the past two days, they added.
The officials said investigations were under way to find out how the detainees managed to escape. The men had been extradited by Saudi authorities after they infiltrated Saudi territory seeking jobs.
It was the second jailbreak in Yemen this year after 23 Al-Qaeda operatives escaped from an intelligence jail in Sanaa on Feb. 3.
The men tunneled their way out of the high-security intelligence prison. The mass escape embarrassed the Yemeni government and dealt a major blow to its efforts to pursue supporters of Al-Qaeda.
Among the February escapees were 13 convicts in the 2000 bombing of the US destroyer USS Cole in the southern Yemeni port of Aden and the bombing of the French oil tanker.
Nine of the escapees have been recaptured or gave themselves up to the authorities, including six convicted in the oil tanker attack.
On Sept. 15, two of the February jail breakers were among four suicide bombers who carried out attacks at two oil facilities in eastern Yemen, according to officials.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=4§ion=0&article=89184&d=26&m=11&y=2006
Cindy see post#10.
How sad.
Prayers for the editor and praying that he makes it out of prison alive.
And then there's those Al Qaeda escapees....hmmm...
Thanks, TK.
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