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Afghan TV, a private television station in Kabul, was fined 49,150 AFN ($1,000) by a special media commission on 4 February for broadcasting 'un-Islamic' material. The station regularly broadcasts film and music videos, but it is unclear which broadcast prompted the fine. (IWPR) ALGERIATwo newspapers were closed on 12 February for reprinting Danish newspaper cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. Kahel Bousaad and Berkane Bouderbala, editors of the pro-Islamist weeklies Errisala and Iqraa, were arrested the following day. A member of Iqraa's staff said: 'The cartoons published in our weekly were [deliberately] fogged. They were accompanied by an article denouncing them.' (Al-Jazeera) Cartoonist Ali Dilem was sentenced to one year's imprisonment and fined 50,000 dinar