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Article on depiction of prophet removed from French weekly
Lebanon, Politics, 7/3/2006
On 29 June 2006, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said the Lebanese government authorities removed an article about the Prophet Mohammed from 280 copies of the French weekly newspaper "Courrier International" upon its arrival in Lebanon on 26 June.
"We thought these practices of censorship were a thing of the past in Lebanon, but we were obviously wrong," the organization said.
The article discusses the subject of depiction of Prophet Mohammed.
The Lebanese distributors of the paper, with Interior Ministry approval, tore out the pages so as to avoid destruction of the whole issue. The ministry said on 28 June that it had been done because the article "offended the dignity of Islam and was likely to provoke religious tension between Muslims."
Several journalists protested against the decision. Ziyad Makhoul, of the daily "L'Orient-Le Jour," who wrote an article about it, told RSF that "if Lebanon is to progress, old habits must change."
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