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2 Yemeni journalists sentenced to 4 months for defaming Islam's prophet
 Obviously, they need to be killed.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. What did they think, that they could inform their readers and let them make their own opinion or something? And what about the Holy Men™, then? 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. Posted by: anonymous5089 2006-12-14 |
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