Algerian TV pair acquitted over cartoons

Two Algerian television journalists charged with broadcasting blasphemous cartoons of the prophet Muhammad have been acquitted. The state prosecutor had demanded five- year prison sentences for journalists Lotfi Chriet and Houria Khater because two public television stations Canal Algeria and A3 screened ten-second transmissions of cartoons that were first published in a Danish newspaper in September 2005. Canal Algeria said there had been a "technical error". (Via Sapa/AFP)