Seven journalists face the death penalty for blasphemy...

Seven journalists face the death penalty for blasphemy after Pakistan's military regime closed down an English-language newspaper for publishing a `highly sacrilegious' reader's letter. The January 29 edition of the Frontier Post in Peshawar carried a letter which accused the prophet Mohammed of anti-semitism and `total dishonesty'. The letter, sent by email, was signed only `BenDZac'. Hundreds of protesters from a rightwing Islamic party set fire to the printing presses of the paper and took to the streets demanding the death penalty to the publishers and proprietors.