Go, Read: Status of Mid-Day Case From Media Source, Irfaan Khan’s Web Site

The top half of this article provides a fairly concise rundown on how the Mid-Day case, where four journalists including the cartoonist Irfaan Khan are facing legal turmoil based on articles and cartooning about the actions of a former Indian court justice. The four were allowed by another court to post bail, and the cases should proceed in early 2008. At issue I think is the lingering specter in many countries that officials should not be subject to criticism, even accurate criticism, based on their position, of which this case is a particularly egregious example because at its heart is a former rather than sitting justice. It's also heartening to read about such vociferous support by the journalistic community and others, to the point where simply running the same stories and cartoons in as many papers as possible has been considered.

Irfaan Khan wrote into CR this morning to note that his own web site has been updated to reflect the impending case. There are a lot of cartoons to look over, too, if you have no interest in freedom of speech issues.
 
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