Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

* this article on the newspaper editor Aleskander Sdvizhkov, sentenced last Friday because of re-publishing the Danish Muhammed Cartoons in 2006 in the now-defunct Minsk newspaper Sgoda has a few details I hadn't seen before. The paper claims that the three-year sentence is one of hard labor, not just time in a maximum security facility. It also includes details of Sdvizhkov's statements in the courtroom, and the reaction of Jyllands-Posten representatives. The article notes that Sdvizhkov may be the only newspaper person jailed for reprinting those cartoons -- journalists in Yemen and Jordan were tried and found guilty but only fined.

* I missed this Ezra Levant piece in the Globe and Mail where he describes his experience appearing before the Alberta Human Rights Commission. Although this material has already been presented in terms of other articles and testimony by Levant on his own web site, this is a nice piece to get a done-in-one impression of what Levant has been talking about in terms of his objections to the experience.
 
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