Democracy still on the march
Sep. 29th, 2006 08:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cyranoOr perhaps, like Moses, wandering in the desert for forty years.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/29/MNGLOLF5CF1.DTL&hw=echo+of+hussein&sn=001&sc=1000
New law in Iraq provides for the arrest and jailing of journalists who print stories which insult or ridicules the government or its officials. Some of the laws are apparently 'resurrected verbatim from Sadam Hussein's penal code'.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/29/MNGLOLF5CF1.DTL&hw=echo+of+hussein&sn=001&sc=1000
New law in Iraq provides for the arrest and jailing of journalists who print stories which insult or ridicules the government or its officials. Some of the laws are apparently 'resurrected verbatim from Sadam Hussein's penal code'.