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A jail official says a cartoonist who was detained on charges of insulting Islam has been released.

Maj. Shamsul Haider Siddiqui, a deputy inspector general of prisons, says a court ordered Mohammed Arifur Rahman's release because the police official bringing charges against him repeatedly failed to appear in court.

Rahman is a former cartoonist for the Bengali-language daily Prothom Alo.Bangladeshi.

The inoffensive cartoonist made a splash with the cartoon shown. Soon after the easily offended kicked up a fuss as reported:

Baton-wielding police broke up a protest by hundreds of Islamists in the Bangladeshi capital against a magazine which published a cartoon they said hurt Muslims’ religious feelings.

Police waded in to halt a march by about 500 demonstrators chanting “death to the editor” and “hang the cartoonist” near Dhaka’s national mosque.

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A court in Bangladesh has found a cartoonist guilty of hurting the religious feelings of the Muslim community and sentenced him to two months of hard labour,.

Arifur Rahman was tried in absence over the drawing, which sparked street clashes and riots in the capital Dhaka when it appeared in a satirical magazine two years ago.

Rahman, who was arrested but later bailed, said that he was unaware of the trial.

The cartoon appeared in Bengali newspaper Prothom Alo's weekly and now defunct magazine Alpin.

He has been given a two-month, hard labour jail sentence and a 500-taka ($7.40) fine, said magistrate Kaisarul Islam, who presided over the case in the city of Jessore.