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May 7, 2007


RSF: Ahmed Abbas Freed on May 3

Reporters Sans Frontieres is reporting that the cartoonist Ahmed Abbas was freed on May 3 after serving a six-month jail term in the Maldives. Abbas had been jailed for a statement to a newspaper concerning that nation's police force. He says he spent much of his time in prison drawing.
 
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