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February 7, 2005


Groups Make Appeal In Haderer Case

Various international creators groups have stepped up to defend Gerhard Haderer, the Austrian cartoonist who was sentenced to six months to jail in Greece for basically blasphemy; his book Das Laben des Jesus, an irreverent look at the life of Jesus, was the first book in twenty years to be banned in that country.

In case like me you wondered after the potentially awesome letter-writing powers of a group called 'Writers in Prison Committee," they assist writers in prison rather than consist of writers in prison.
 
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