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Denmark stiffens sentence for cartoonist attacker
by Mette Fraende
Reuters
June 23, 2011
https://www.legal-project.org/1481/denmark-stiffens-sentence-for-cartoonist-attacker
Excerpt:
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - A Danish appeals court Wednesday lengthened the prison sentence of a Somali man to 10 years from nine for attempting to kill a cartoonist whose 2005 drawing of the Prophet Mohammad provoked Muslim outrage.
Muhudiin Mohamed Geele broke into the home of cartoonist Kurt Westergaard with an axe on New Year's Day last year.
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