More on Yemeni Danish Cartoons Fine

The good thing about waiting a day on a story like Wednesday's news that Yemeni newspaper editor Mohammad al-Asadi of the Yemen Observer was fined for republishing the Danish Cartoons of Muhammed is that a lot more stories and takes on the issue rear their head. The bad thing is that some of the facts may not line up and likely few of the name-spellings will.

* This is the version that made it to one American newspaper, which devalues the amount of money in the fine from $2550 USD to $2400 USD, and notes that Yemeni President Saleh has vowed to overturned prison sentences which makes a sentence in the form of a fine either bitterly humorous in a way or kind of despicable.

* A report in the Yemen Times identifies the exact court and the newspaper's lawyer.

* The Committee to Protect Journalists reveals in talking to the editor that one outcome may be that a conviction, even without a jail sentence, may open the convicted up to militants as a target for retribution. It also notes that two more journalists, Abdulkarim Sabra, the managing editor and publisher of Al-Hurriya Ahliya, and Yehiya al-Abed, one the paper's journalists, should learn about their own sentences within a week or two.

* This article describes a packed courtroom and mentions that the cartoons were crossed out to show condemnation, which makes the decisions that much more extreme.
 
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