RSF Condemns Potential Criminal Prosecution of Two Cartoonists in Turkey
Add Reporter sans frontieres (RSF) to the group of international press agencies condemning the potential criminal prosecution of cartoonists Musa Kart and Zafer Timucin for late-November 2007 cartoons satirizing President Abdullah Gul. The article notes that the cartoonists face a potential five-plus years in prison on charges of "insulting the president" which is actually its own article in the country's criminal code.
