Jordan: Editors jailed for printing Mohammed cartoons
The court sentenced the editors — Jihad Momani, former editor of the weekly Shihane tabloid, and Hisham al-Khalidi, editor-in-chief of the tabloid al-Mehwar — to two months in prison for “attacking religious sentiment,” the AFP and News24.com reported.
The editors were arrested in February and have since been on bail. The sentence comes as another blow to press freedom and fuels the debate on whether or not editors have the right to run the religiously offensive cartoons.
Source: AFP, News 24 (through European Journalism Centre)
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STEVE O'KEEFE
all this predicting fails to mention the role of the AP in news gathering and distribution. The true loss to American journalism - and democracy - was the virtual death of UPI. No one noticed.
The internet is form, not function.