Human Rights & Freedom of Speech & Human Decency

A blog to share, discuss and dispel the evil that some European media have resorted to by publishing cartoons based on Islam and its Prophet in an insulting and demeaning manner under the pretext of Human Rights & Freedom of Speech.

Sunday, February 05, 2006

Jordan editors held

Al Jazeera - Sunday Feb 5 2006 0951 GMT

Jordan editors held in cartoon row

Two Jordanian tabloid editors have been arrested after their newspapers were the only Arab-based publications to print controversial cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed, a source said.
The caricatures, which included depictions of the Muslim prophet as a knife-wielding bedouin and another as wearing a time bomb-shaped turban, have sparked widespread protests in the Muslim world.

Hashem al-Khalidi, editor-in-chief of a weekly tabloid called Al-Mehwar which printed the cartoons in its 26 January edition, was arrested shortly before midnight on Saturday (2200 GMT), the source close to Khalidi told AFP.

Jihad Momani, the former editor-in-chief who was sacked on Friday from the helm of the weekly gossip newspaper Shihane, was earlier arrested on the order of prosecutors for having printed three of the cartoons, a judicial source told AFP.

Shihane published the drawings on Thursday, and the paper's publisher subsequently pulled all editions from the newsstands.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/DCE98CAC-D1A7-44C8-AE71-3AABE1F62670.htm

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