Yemen - Journalist imprisoned for 'falsification' of the Koran

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Journalist Moaz Ashhabi was sentenced on 16 January to one year in prison by a court in Sanaa dealing with press matters which also banned him from working as journalist for one year for “falsification of the Koran”. The charge related to his column that was carried by the weekly al-Thaqafa (Culture) on 7 October 2009. Ashhabi was taken to the Sanaa central prison the following day. The editor of the newspaper, Ahmed al-Maghlas, was given a three-year suspended prison sentence. “This (...)

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