<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/34b0de46-e8d6-48b7-9be6-e11eb2e706c4/CE813D55-2186-4A1D-9213-B0476832387C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6262919.stm" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6262919.stm" style="font-size: 11px;">news.bbc.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6262919.stm"><FONT size="2"><B>A court in Casablanca has given two Moroccan journalists suspended sentences of three years for defaming Islam and breaching public morality.</B> </FONT><P> <FONT size="2">The journalists' weekly magazine, Nichane, had published an article entitled How Moroccans laugh at religion, sex and politics. </FONT></P><P> <FONT size="2">The court banned publication of the magazine for two months and fined Driss Ksikes and Sanaa al-Aji about $8,000. </FONT></P><P> <FONT size="2">The journalists said the jokes they published were in common usage. </FONT></P><P> <FONT size="2">Their lawyer says they plan to appeal against the sentence. </FONT></P><P> <FONT size="2">The prosecutor had urged sentences of three to five years, saying journalists must balance liberties and responsibilities. </FONT></P><P> <FONT size="2">Their article had featured jokes about God, the prophets and the Moroccan king, which deeply insulted many ordinary Moroccans and their religion, says the BBC's Richard Hamilton in Casablanca. </FONT></P><P><DIV> <FONT size="2">The two journalists, backed by many international organisations, feel their prosecution was a blow to press freedom, says our correspondent. </FONT> </DIV></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/CE813D55-2186-4A1D-9213-B0476832387C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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