Azerbaijan editor jailed over article
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An Azerbaijani newspaper editor was sentenced to 8 1/2 years in prison Tuesday over an article alleging that the former Soviet republic could support a U.S. attack on neighboring Iran.
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A Yemeni court sentenced a newspaper editor to one year in jail and shut his publication for reprinting offensive cartoons of Prophet Mohammed, but the attorney general freed the journalist.
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A human rights activist and journalist has died in prison in Turkmenistan, according to a rights group whose director blamed the government Thursday for what he said appeared to have been her violent death.
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By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI NEW YORK - When Iranian journalist Mojtaba Saminejad was sentenced to two years in prison for insulting the country's Supreme Leader, it was not for an article that appeared in a newspaper. His offending story was posted on his personal Web blog.
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An Afghan journalist sentenced to death for distributing an article that allegedly violated Islam is actually being punished for reporting by his brother about abuses by northern warlords, a media group said Wednesday.
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A Chinese court jailed a reporter for   a Singapore newspaper for five years on Thursday on a charge of   spying, the latest in a series of high-profile cases   underscoring China's curbs on the media and dissent.
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An Egyptian court sentenced a dissident blogger to four years in prison Thursday for insulting Islam and defaming President Hosni Mubarak, friends told AFP.
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Belarus jailed on Friday for three  years an editor of an independent newspaper who reproduced  cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad which first appeared in  Denmark in 2005 and caused mass demonstrations across the  Muslim world.
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BEIJING, Sept. 15 -- A jailed researcher for the New York Times was released in Beijing at about 8:15 a.m. Saturday after serving a three-year sentence for accepting money from a source, a charge he denies.
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A court has sentenced an independent rights activist and journalist to six years in jail for extortion amid a sweeping government crackdown on dissidents in the tightly controlled ex-Soviet state.
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Iran closed a newspaper and detained its chief editor and cartoonist Tuesday for publishing a cartoon that sparked riots by ethnic Azeris, the first such move since President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad came to power last year.
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The editor of leading Indonesian magazine Tempo was sentenced to a year&#39;s jail yesterday in a high-profile libel case that rights groups say represents a setback for press freedom and the country&#39;s emerging democracy.
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Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan,  promoted as a Nobel Peace Prize candidate for his vigorous  opposition to capital punishment, was sentenced to 6-1/2 years  in prison on Wednesday for corrupt dealings while in office.
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Insult Islam at your peril An Egyptian blogger found guilty of insulting both Islam and the country's president has been jailed for four years, Reuters reports.â¦
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A Turkish judge acquitted a prominent  author on Thursday in a case seen as a fresh test of freedom of  expression in the European Union candidate nation.
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The editor of Russia&#39;s respected Izvestia daily said Monday he was stepping down in a dispute with his publisher over the paper&#39;s critical coverage of the school hostage standoff
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A former member of Spain's Basque separatist movement is jailed one day after the group ended a ceasefire.