10 March 2006

Alert

Editor of magazine released


Incident details

Alok Tomar

editor(s)

released

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(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders notes the release on bail, on 2 March 2006, of Alok Tomar, editor of the Hindi-language magazine "Shabdarth". He had to pay 50,000 rupees (943 euros) under the guarantee of a co-signer. He was arrested on 23 February after publishing one of the Danish cartoons of the prophet Mohammed.



Source:

Reporters Without Borders
47, rue Vivienne
75002 Paris
France
rsf (@) rsf.org
Phone: +33 1 44 83 84 84
Fax: +33 1 45 23 11 51
 

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