Charlie Hebdo's satirical journalism drew fans, critics

January 07, 2015 22:34

In the fall of 2012, Paris police called and urged Stphane Charbonnier, editor of Charlie Hebdo, to stand down on his plans to publish cartoons of Prophet Muhammad in his satirical weekly.

Charbonnier, who is also a cartoonist for the newspaper, refused, citing his rights as a journalist and the publication's ethos of using satire to express its leftist, secular politics.

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