2008 Woodie Awards
International News
Shabnam Mahmoudkhan
Issue date: 2/19/08 Section: News
Denmark
Spanish, Swedish and Deutsch newspapers re-printed Kurt Westergaard's controversial cartoons of the prophet Mohammed on Wednesday, after the Danish police arrested three people for planning to assassinate the artist.
"We are doing this to document what is at stake in this case, and to unambiguously back and support the freedom of speech that we, as a newspaper, always will defend," said Berlingske Tidende, an official at a newspaper in Denmark that republished the drawing.
Westergaard's cartoon illustrated Prophet Mohammed wearing a bomb with a lit fuse as a turban.
The cartoon was first published in the Danish paper Jylland-Posten in Sept. 2005, and caused protests amongst Muslims across the world.
Displaying the image of a prophet's person is strictly forbidden by Islam.
Pakistan
Two men suspected of contributing to the assassination of Benazir Bhutto by a suicide bomber have confessed to a Pakistani judge, an Interior Ministry spokesman spoke to CNN on Wednesday.
The men, identified as Hasnain Gul and Rafaqat, told the judge they supplied the suicide bomber with housing, transportation, a handgun and the jacket that possibly killed the former prime minister, said spokesman Javed Iqbal Cheema to CNN.
Benazir Bhutto was murdered on Dec. 27, 2007 as she was leaving a political campaign rally.
Spanish, Swedish and Deutsch newspapers re-printed Kurt Westergaard's controversial cartoons of the prophet Mohammed on Wednesday, after the Danish police arrested three people for planning to assassinate the artist.
"We are doing this to document what is at stake in this case, and to unambiguously back and support the freedom of speech that we, as a newspaper, always will defend," said Berlingske Tidende, an official at a newspaper in Denmark that republished the drawing.
Westergaard's cartoon illustrated Prophet Mohammed wearing a bomb with a lit fuse as a turban.
The cartoon was first published in the Danish paper Jylland-Posten in Sept. 2005, and caused protests amongst Muslims across the world.
Displaying the image of a prophet's person is strictly forbidden by Islam.
Pakistan
Two men suspected of contributing to the assassination of Benazir Bhutto by a suicide bomber have confessed to a Pakistani judge, an Interior Ministry spokesman spoke to CNN on Wednesday.
The men, identified as Hasnain Gul and Rafaqat, told the judge they supplied the suicide bomber with housing, transportation, a handgun and the jacket that possibly killed the former prime minister, said spokesman Javed Iqbal Cheema to CNN.
Benazir Bhutto was murdered on Dec. 27, 2007 as she was leaving a political campaign rally.
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