is brutally tortured by the Iranian police and then murdered in detention--[all] for writing her articles. "2004, Iran: The musician and poet Ahmad Bayat Mokhtari is abducted and run down by a car in Chiraz because of his artistic activities.
"On October 30, in Damascus, researcher and writer Nabil El-Fayadh, author of many books banned in Syria and other Arab countries, is arrested by the intelligence service . . .
"On November 2, Dutch film maker Theo Van Gogh is murdered in Amsterdam by a Moroccan Islamist because of his film Submission, which portrays the submissiveness of Muslim women. . . [."]
from The Middle East Media Research Institute: Censorship and Persecution in the Name of Islam: A Tunisian Weekly Counts the Ways
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