Freedmom of Speech,The Yemen Style.
Sometimes we need a reminder of the differences between regimes with human rights and these without.
Link: Yemen editor ‘faces death calls’
Muhammad al-Asadi was arrested after his publication, the Yemen Observer, showed the Danish cartoons in February.
He denies the charges of offending Islam, under which he is being tried.
The English-language newspaper has had its licence to publish suspended, although its staff have continued to produce material online.
Lawyers leading a civil case against publishers of the cartoons - in addition to the public case - cited precedents from Muslim history when the prophet was insulted by a woman and then praised her killer.
Prosecutors have reportedly requested that the Yemen Observer be closed permanently and have its property and assets confiscated.
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