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Editors jailed over cartoons
Herald Sun ^ | 31 May 2006

Posted on 05/30/2006 4:39:16 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher

A JORDANIAN court today jailed two newspaper editors for "attacking religious sentiment" by reprinting cartoons deemed offensive to Prophet Mohammad, their lawyer said.

Jihad Momani, former editor of the weekly Shihane tabloid, and Hisham al-Khalidi, editor-in-chief of the tabloid Al-Mehwar, "were each sentenced to two months in prison", lawyer Mohammed Kteishat said.

Mr Kteishat said he would appeal the verdict.

The defendants have been on bail since their arrest in February for printing the drawings, first published in September by Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.

The cartoons were subsequently re-published by numerous mainly European papers, triggering the fury of Muslims around the world, sparking often violent protests and triggering a boycott of Danish goods in several Muslim countries.

Momani and Khalidi both pleaded not guilty.

Their arrests have been condemned by international press watchdogs, who say journalists should not be jailed for what they publish.

Early in February, King Abdullah II said insulting the prophet was "an unjustifiable crime ... that could not be justified on the pretext of freedom of expression".


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: cartoons; islam; jailed; jordan; moohamad; moozies; ratbags
King Abdullah is a boofhead!
1 posted on 05/30/2006 4:39:17 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
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To: Aussie Dasher
And this is one of the most moderate of the "moderate" Arab countries.

Somehow though, it'll all turn out to be:

Bush's Fault!

Just wait and see.

2 posted on 05/30/2006 5:12:56 PM PDT by El Gato
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To: Aussie Dasher

I thought they has finally arrested Jim Davis's editors.


3 posted on 05/30/2006 6:15:28 PM PDT by RightWingAtheist (Creationism is to conservatism what Howard Dean is to liberalism)
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