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#JeSuisCharlie gets little sympathy in Russia
Source: BBC
16 January 2015 Last updated at 16:41 GMT
#JeSuisCharlie gets little sympathy in Russia
By Sarah Rainsford
BBC News, Moscow
Russia's media watchdog has warned the country's press against publishing religious caricatures that could be deemed offensive.
Its statement was in response to widespread discussion following the attack on the French magazine Charlie Hebdo which satirised the Prophet Muhammad.
The ruling came on the same day that a court in Moscow sentenced a man to eight days in jail for staging an unsanctioned protest, by holding up a "Je suis Charlie" placard in the city centre.
Very few publications in Russia reprinted the French cartoons and many commentators - both Orthodox Christian and Muslim - have criticised them as insulting.
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#JeSuisCharlie gets little sympathy in Russia
By Sarah Rainsford
BBC News, Moscow
Russia's media watchdog has warned the country's press against publishing religious caricatures that could be deemed offensive.
Its statement was in response to widespread discussion following the attack on the French magazine Charlie Hebdo which satirised the Prophet Muhammad.
The ruling came on the same day that a court in Moscow sentenced a man to eight days in jail for staging an unsanctioned protest, by holding up a "Je suis Charlie" placard in the city centre.
Very few publications in Russia reprinted the French cartoons and many commentators - both Orthodox Christian and Muslim - have criticised them as insulting.
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Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30847694
