16 Feb
2001
16 Feb
'01
12:45 p.m.
Pakistani journalists jailed, printing press destroyed ---------- The Frontier Post, an English-language newspaper in Pakistan, was closed by the government and some of its staff imprisoned after it printed a letter that criticized the founder of Islam. The crime of blasphemy is punishable by death. (02/16/01) http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12543-2001Feb15.html