Morocco: Banned Paper Renamed
December 2nd, 2009 by Zack
Middle East Online reports that the Moroccan newspaper Akhbar al Youm, which was shut down after publishing a cartoon related to a royal wedding in September, will reopen under the name Akhbar Al Youm Al Maghrabia. The editor and cartoonist had been given a four-year suspended sentence and fined $396,000 after the court ordered the “definitive closure” of the paper.
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