http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/MediaNews/2006/12/13/2771607-ap.html
Yemeni journalists sentenced for defaming Islam's prophet By AHMED AL-HAJ SAN'A, Yemen (AP) - A court Wednesday sentenced an editor and journalist from a weekly newspaper to four months in prison for reprinting Danish cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad. It was the third sentence against journalists handed down in recent weeks over the controversy. The cartoons were first printed in Denmark, then in several European papers, raising outrage in the Muslim world because they satirized Islam's prophet as violent and backward. Several Yemeni newspapers also printed the cartoons, apparently to show what the controversy was about. The court sentenced editor Abdel Karim Sabra and journalist Abdel Rahman Al-Abed, both from the weekly Al-Hurriyah, to four months in prison for "defaming the prophet" and forbade them from writing for two months. Earlier this month, Mohammed al-Asaadi, editor of the English-language Yemen Observer, was fined the equivalent of about C$2,900 for printing the cartoons and ordered detained until he paid the money. On Nov. 24, Kamal al-Aalafi, editor of the Al-Ra'i al-Am weekly, was sentenced to a year in prison and the paper was closed for six months. He was later released on bail. At least 100 journalists in Yemen have faced various forms of harassment in the past year, ranging from beatings and arrests to kidnappings and a letter-bombing that wounded a newspaper editor, according to Yemen's Center of Training and Press Freedoms Protection, a non-governmental watchdog. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
