Lebanese government censors magazine

The latest edition of the French weekly magazine, Courier International, has appeared on Lebanese newsstands with one of its pages completely blank. State censors refused to allow the publication of two articles, one on Iran and another on Bahrain. Ziyad Makhul, a leading Lebanese journalist with the French-language Beirut daily L'Orient Le Jour, said: "It is totally inconceivable that something like this could still happen under an interior minister such as Ahmad Fatfat, a media-savvy intellectual." A government source said the articles "risked harming the dignity of Islam and its symbols." (Via adniki.com)