Topic: Kurt Westergaard
A Jordanian court on Monday put on trial in absentia Danish artist Kurt Westergaard who is being sued in the kingdom for blasphemy over a controversial cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed."A court in Amman began today the trial in absentia of those ...
A Somali man charged with trying to kill a Dane who caricatured the Prophet Mohammed pleaded not guilty to attempted murder on the first day of his trial Wednesday, insisting he had only aimed to scare the cartoonist."I was irritated and frustrated ...
A Somali man charged with trying to kill the cartoonist behind the most controversial of the Danish caricatures of Prophet Mohammed goes on trial Wednesday in the central town of Aarhus.The 29-year-old man, who has only been identified as Abdi in Danish ...
Controversial Danish Muhammad cartoonist to retire near 75, hoping to lower terror threatDanish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, who caricatured the Prophet Muhammad and caused outrage in the Muslim world, said Monday he is quitting because he is getting old."One has to stop at ...
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Lars Vilks, a Swedish cartoonist whose sketch of the Prophet Mohammad enraged many Muslims, was head-butted on Tuesday while giving a lecture about freedom of speech, he said.A video of the incident was posted on Swedish newspaper websites and ...
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Irish police have released a woman arrested along with six other people last week over an alleged plot to murder a Swedish cartoonist who drew the Prophet Mohammad with the body of a dog, officials said.One of the women ...
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Irish police have released three of the seven people arrested on Tuesday in connection with an alleged plot to murder a Swedish cartoonist over a drawing depicting the Prophet Mohammad with the body of a dog.A security source confirmed ...
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - The Swedish cartoonist whose sketch of the Prophet Mohammad has made him the target of Muslim anger said on Wednesday he had received more death threats since arrests were made this week over an alleged plot to kill him.Lars ...
Danish cartoonist says police cannot protect him from spontaneous attackersThe Danish artist whose controversial cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad enraged Muslims around the world said Monday that police cannot protect him from attackers who act spontaneously.Kurt Westergaard said in an interview with ...
An ax-wielding Somali man with suspected al-Qaida links has been charged with two counts of attempted murder after breaking into the home of a Danish artist whose Prophet Muhammad cartoon outraged the Muslim world three years ago.The suspect, who was shot twice ...
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Germany Denmark Media Prize Westergaard
Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, left, speaks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right ...AP News - -
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FILE - In this Feb. 19, 2008 file photo, Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard ...AP News -
