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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