Cambridge Students May Be Prosecuted for Publishing Danish Cartoon

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As we noted earlier this month, two students at Cambridge’s Clare College are in big trouble after publishing one of the dreaded Danish cartoons of blasphemy, and today comes word that they’ve been questioned by British police and may be prosecuted: Clare college students questioned. (Hat tip: Micrographia.)

The controversy over the publication of one of the now infamous Jyllands Posten Mohammed cartoons in a Cambridge University student publication has taken on a new seriousness, after two students were questioned under caution by Cambridgeshire police.

The students, understood to be the editor and guest editor of unofficial Clare College magazine Clareification (renamed Crucification for an issue focused on religious satire) were interrogated under Section 5 of the Public Order Act (“harassment, alarm or distress”).

Police confirmed to Index that the students were questioned last Friday, and a file has been sent to the Crown Prosecution Service, which will decide whether to press charges against the students in the coming weeks.

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