Yemen ‘Cartoon’ Editor Faces Death Penalty
Armies of Liberation » Al-Asadi on Trial for Publishing Mohammed Cartoon
The proscutors (all 21 of them) want the death penalty and the Yemen Observer (YO) shut with financial compensation in the form of their assests. I still dont get this: how a private citizen can pay for state lawyers. I know its Yemen and I know its Zindani, but what is that?Up to 21 prosecution lawyers called for the death penalty against Mohammed Al-Asadi, the Editor-in-Chief of the Yemen Observer, and the permanent closure of the newspaper, during Al-Asadi’s trial on Wednesday. The lawyers, commissioned by Sheik Abdul-Majid Zindani, the Chairman of Islah Shura Council and led by Mohammed Al-Shawish, also called for the confiscation of all the newspaper’s property and assets, and for financial compensation to be paid to be the Muslim’s ‘Finance House’, which last existed during the time of the Caliphs, 1200 years ago. They recounted a story in which a lady was killed during the Prophet’s lifetime after she insulted him, and that the Prophet then praised the killer.
I still cant believe this. Zindani whipping up a frenzy and collecting money and the YO shut. Ten new lawyers for the prosecution. At least he’s getting international coverage unlike Khalid Salman and the other Yemeni journalists kidnapped, beaten, stabbed, beat up every week for the last year.
From the WAPO :
Arab Press on Trial Again
As freedom of the press in the Arab world grows, so do the challenges faced by independent journalists there.Yesterday, Kuwait passed one of the strongest press freedom laws in the Arab world. Tomorrow, Muhammad al Asadi, editor of the weekly Yemen Observer, goes on trial for charges of blasphemy resulting from the Observer’s coverage of the Danish cartoon controversy.
Jane Novak has it all. Remember comrades, this is the government of Yemen (theoretically more than just a mob of Islamist extremists), a government supposedly helping to fight the War on Terror, and a man is on trial for his life for publishing the Mohammed cartoons.
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