A Jordanian court will begin this month the trial of Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, pictured in 2010, over a controversial caricature of the Muslim Prophet Mohammed, but it was unclear if he will attend. AFP - A Jordanian court will begin this month the trial of Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard over a controversial caricature of the Muslim Prophet Mohammed, but it was unclear if he will attend.
Zakarya Sheikh, spokesman for a group of local media outlets that sued Westergaard in 2008 for depicting Mohammed with a bomb in his turban, said on Thursday the artist and others have been summoned by a magistrates' court in Amman to stand trial on April 25." [FRANCE 24] Read more [via EuropeNews]
