Cartoon protesters' jail term cut
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A court reduces the jail terms of three Muslim men convicted for their part in protests against cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
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Britain proposed jail sentences of up to five years for animal rights protesters who obstruct experiments, widening its crackdown on extremists it says threaten vital medical research.
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Danish police said Tuesday they have arrested several people suspected of plotting to kill one of the 12 cartoonists behind the Prophet Muhammad drawings that sparked an uproar in the Muslim world two years ago.
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Judge says law violates free speech, orders blocking stopped.
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Rebellion over 42-day detention as threat of legal challenge looms
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A far-right activist was convicted of incitement and sentenced to the maximum five years in prison Thursday for anti-Semitic activities, including contributing to a Web site dedicated to Holocaust denial.
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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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Thousands of supporters of  the Islamist group Hamas protested in the Gaza Strip on Friday  against the reprinting of a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammad  that sparked Muslim outrage two years ago.
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The latest crackdown comes before a protest planned this week against new government curbs on the news media, a government official acknowledged Wednesday.
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A Belarus court sentenced a newspaper editor Friday to three years in prison for reprinting a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad that sparked worldwide riots when it was initially published in a Danish newspaper.
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Sudanese courts have jailed at least  10 demonstrators arrested by the state security forces who used  teargas and sticks to break up a protest against price hikes on  basic goods.
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The case of Genarlow Wilson, now serving a 10-year mandatory prison sentence for having oral sex with a 15-year-old girl as a teen, is just the latest to make the state's attorney general the target of protests.
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Several publications print image a day after three people were arrested for allegedly plotting to kill cartoonist
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TRENTON, New Jersey  - Three animal rights   activists convicted under a U.S. anti-terrorism law were   sentenced to up to 6 years in prison on Tuesday for a campaign   against a British company that tests chemicals on animals.
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An international press freedom body on Wednesday called for the immediate release of a Bangladesh cartoonist detained for allegedly insulting Muslims with a reference to the prophet Mohammed.
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Human rights experts call them "prisoners of conscience." Hundreds of them around the world are forced to live in deplorable conditions in jail cells and prison camps.
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Portugal&#39;s highest court cut the jail  sentence on a convicted pedophile, causing outrage on Tuesday  in a country sensitive to the plight of children after the  abduction of a 4-year-old British girl.