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Four Die in an Anti-Charlie Hebdo Protest in Niger

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Muslims shout slogans against France and call for its apology after attending Jumma prayer in Khartoum on 16 January 2015 
Sudan Riot
The wave of protests against the latest Charlie Hebdo’s “Survivors’ Issue” hit the city of Zinder, Niger in which no less than four persons died. 

The cover of the magazine's latest edition, published after the attack, featured a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad weeping while holding a sign saying "I am Charlie".


Protests against the magazine were also seen on Friday in Pakistan, where protests turned violent in Karachi, the Sudanese capital of Khartoum and the Algerian capital, Algiers.

The protesters yelled in a loud voice in local house language saying, “Charlie is Satan.”

"Some of the protesters were armed with bows and arrows as well as clubs. The clashes were very violent in some places," the source added.

They raided Christian churches and French cultural centres and razed them.
Kaoumi Bawa, the director of the French cultural centre confirmed it saying that an angry mob of about 50 men attacked the centre, smashed its door and set fire on the cateteria; according to BBC.

Charlie Hebdo, a French atheist magazine was attacked a fortnight ago for their 2011 publication of a cartoon, the Sobbing Mohammed, killing 17 including four prominent cartoonists.

They defiantly, a week after the attack depicted Mohammed as saying   “I am Charlie,” a popular Charlie Hebdo solidarity slogan for the attack.

They lay their defiance on their right to freedom of expression. In reaction to the events, Pope Francis says that freedom of expression has limits.

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