Bangladeshi Cartoonist Freed

Seems being a cartoonist is the toughest job in certain Muslim countries.

This poor guy sat in jail for six months for nothing.

A Bangladesh cartoonist jailed for allegedly insulting Muslims with a reference to the Prophet Mohammed has been released, court and prison officials said Friday.

Arifur Rahman, 23, was detained last September after the cartoon appeared in a weekly satirical magazine published by the mass-circulated Bengali daily Prothom Alo.

Prosecutor Shahidul Haque Bhuiyan said a magistrates' court in the capital Dhaka on Thursday ordered that proceedings be dropped after the complainant in the case repeatedly failed to turn up for hearings.

"Arifur Rahman was released from jail on Thursday evening following a court order," added deputy inspector of prisons Shamsul Haider Siddiqui.

The sketch showed a small boy referring to his cat as "Mohammed cat", a reference a common practice where people put the name of the prophet before their own name.

These people really need to get a life.