Swedish journalists defy death threats

Sweden's prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt has appealed for calm following Al-Qaeda's pledge to pay £75,000 to anyone who kills two journalists responsible for a cartoon portraying the Prophet Muhammad as a dog. The group named the cartoonist, Lars Vilks, and Ulf Johansson, editor in chief of Nerikes Allehanda, the paper that first carried the cartoon. It was republished in a smaller format yesterday by a daily paper, Dagens Nyheter, whose chief editor, Thorbjoern Larsson, wrote an editorial which said: "We live in a country where freedom of expression is not dictated by fundamentalists, nor by governments." (Via Raw Story)