M6 called to probe government-organized protests against magazine

[brim]

CPJ calls on King to probe government-organized protests against magazine

The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned by evidence that Moroccan authorities played a role in organizing demonstrations against the magazine Le Journal Hebdomadaire for publishing a photograph of a French newspaper showing some of the Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. These state-orchestrated protests placed the lives of the entire staff of the Casablanca-based weekly at risk, yet the government has failed to launch a credible investigation or call those responsible to account.

Le Journal suffered this harassment after the February 11 publication of an Agence France-Presse photograph showing a reader holding the edition of the Paris daily France Soir which reproduced the cartoons. The drawings were barely visible but to avoid controversy Le Journal inked out the cartoon. Le Journal published the photograph as part of a 10-page chronology of events that followed the publication of the drawings in the Danish daily Jyllands-Posten.

[vickyt]

let me guess. Flawed policies of central government so they distract the 'masses' with some half witted hate campaign.

Same old story.... <sigh>