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Jordan: Editors jailed for printing Mohammed cartoons

Posted by Maddie Hanna on June 1, 2006 at 12:18 PM
A Jordanian court has jailed two newspaper editors for printing the Mohammed cartoons, which incited worldwide uproar after they were first run by Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten last fall.


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Iran: Major paper closes after cartoon sparks riots

Posted by Maddie Hanna on May 24, 2006 at 12:02 PM
The Iranian government shut down one of Iran’s top three newspapers after it ran a cartoon Friday that angered the country’s Azeri minority, the Guardian reported Tuesday, an incident that recalls the still-lingering controversy surrounding the inflammatory Mohammed cartoons.


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Mohammed cartoons row: further complications?

Posted by Elena Perotti on May 16, 2006 at 6:52 PM

French daily Le Monde reports in today’s edition that European anti-terrorism services have recently reinforced their measures against attacks. For months now, Al-Quaida has been allegedly organizing a “mission” aimed to punish the designers of the Mohammed cartoons published by Danish newspaper Jyllands Posten. According to Hamir Mir, chief editor of Pakistani daily Ausaf, a group of twelve terrorists (nine Afghans and three Pakistanis) is already heading for Denmark.


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