Kawkab al-Thaibani Jennifer F. Steil of the very same have the story:
The charges were baseless. We did not abuse the Prophet, and consequently, the verdict is baseless, said Alasaadi.According to Nasser Arrabyee of the Saudi news-site , the paper, which republished the cartoons with a large X across them in order to condemn them, will be allowed to remain open. This is more than can be said for Yemeni Arabic-language newspaper al-Rai al-Aam, which was shuttered for one year after its editor, Kamal al-Olufi, to an equivalent prison term on November 25 for publishing a screenshot Danish newspaper Jyllands Posten s website homepage, in which some of the cartoons were visible.I reject the verdict completely, and we will appeal. His lawyers, Mohammed Naji Allawo and Khaled al-Anesi, appealed the verdict. What is dangerous about this verdict is that Alasaadi is convicted of insulting the prophet, which puts him in danger because any fanatic can kill him for God s sake, because the court has said this is true, said Allawo.
Fanatics may feel he received too light a punishment, and take it upon themselves to kill him.
The doors to the offices of al-Rai al-Aam were by authorities last Saturday. (It s not immediately clear whether al-Olufi is actually in custody at the moment; the report at the last link, filed last Sunday, places him in hiding from security forces looking to arrest him.)
Charges against yet a third paper, Al-Hurriyah, for publishing the cartoons are still ongoing.
According to a report written early Tuesday morning for the by Mohammed Alasaadi himself, the Yemen Journalists Syndicate has issued an appeal to Yemen s President, Ali Abdullah Saleh, to intervene with law-enforcement and the judiciary to end what he calls the ongoing harassment of local journalists :
The group organized a rally, an open day, planned to be held on Tuesday morning for journalists, parliamentarians, human rights and freedoms activists, and NGO and political parties representatives at the premises of the Yemeni Journalists Syndicate. The open meeting will be dedicated to discussing the dangers of the recently issued verdict against Al-Rai Al-A am and the possible verdicts against the Yemen Observer and its editor, scheduled for Wednesday, December 6, and Al-Hurriya and its managing editor and his assistant later this month. An important statement is expected to be issued after the rally, to be circulated among the local and international media.has a report on the subsequent rally. The case against Al-Hurriyah editor Akram Sabra and his assistant, Yehya al-Abed, is scheduled to be heard in court on December 16.
(Above: One of the cartoons depicting Muhammed, which sparked the whole retarded controversy one year ago.
Note that because Arabic uses its own written alphabet, word spellings are approximate and vary from source to source; I have attempted to use spellings from the Yemen Observer whenever possible with the exception of the prophet Muhammed s name, which I ve been attempting to consistantly spell as shown.)
Well, it s a better debut than you d expect, when you consider that the list counts sales for the week ending December 3, and while I m not sure exactly when new Naruto book was officially supposed to debut, I saw clerks putting the first copies on shelves at my local Borders last Friday, December 1. That s what, two days on the shelves?
In France, the 29th volume of Grzegorz Rosinski and Jean Van Hamme s Thorgal series debuts on the de-mangafied top-fifteen bestselling albums list provided by ( ).
And in Japan, the Tohan top-ten list of bestselling manga volumes finds the 22nd volume of Naoki Urasawa s 20th Century Boys in the top slot has the chart. (Right: cover to Naruto Vol. 12.
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It all happens at Magnet in S.F. s Castro district, beginning at 7PM.
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Sikoryak s latest Carousel cartoon slideshow will take place at Dixon Place; in addition to Sikoryak, participating artists include Leela Corman, Robbie Busch, Julie Klausner, Todd Alcott and others. Doors open at 7:30PM, and the show begins at 8PM. Tickets are $12.
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A few ; the Secret Headquarters website .
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Scheduled guests include Hunt Emerson, Paul Grist, Andi Watson, Alan Davis, Mark Buckingham, Dave Gibbons and a host of others. A weekend pass will set you back 10. .
Admission is listed as $5 adults; $8 students/seniors, but I suspect that they got the numbers reversed. .
10 (Santa Monica, CA): Editorial cartoonist Paul Conrad will talk art and politics with political commentator Robert Scheer, at an event staged by the Pacific Palisades Democratic Club from 4-6PM at Bergamot Station. A book signing will follow. There is a suggested $25 donation.
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Admission is $5 for non-members. .
13 (Halifax, Nova Scotia): Making Comics author Scott McCloud stops by the Strange Adventures comics shop at 6PM for an informal meet and greet. .
14 (New York City, NY): Art Spiegelman will be signing copies of the new Little Lit compilation at the Borders outlet in Penn Plaza, beginning at 6:30PM. .
15 (New York City, NY): Abby Denson and Shannon O Leary will be signing their latest books at Bluestockings, beginning at 7PM. .
16 (Washington DC): Abby Denson and Shannon O Leary will be signing their latest books at Big Planet Comics Georgetown location, beginning at 3:30PM. .
16 (Seattle, WA): It s a cartoonists multimedia extravaganza at the Fantagraphics store today. Peter Bagge will be showing several rare bits of animation he s worked on, including the never-before-aired animatic for a HATE TV show that MTV was developing in the late-1990s, while Ellen Forney will present her I Love Led Zeppelin multimedia performance. It all starts at 6PM; admission is free.
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No sales-only events, please it s nice that you ve marked things down at your store or website, but I won t be listing it here.
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