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World's Press Protest Arrests, Closures Over Mohamet Cartoons

Posted by John Burke on February 20, 2006 at 2:58 PM

The World Association of Newspapers and World Editors Forum have protested against a wave of repressive action against editors and other journalists in Arab and Muslim countries who have published the cartoons of Mohamet at the centre of the current controversy.

In letters to the governments of Algeria, Yemen, Malaysia and Jordan, together with that of Russia, the Paris-based WAN and WEF have called for the release of jailed journalists and the reopening of banned publications.

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