Issued by Mr. Toger Seidenfaden, Editor-in-Chief, on behalf of Politiken and Mr Faisal A.Z. Yamani, attorney-at-law, on behalf of his clients.
The Danish national daily newspaper Politiken and the directors of 8 organizations in Egypt, Libya, Qatar, Australia, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon and Palestine that have 94,923 members, who are descendents of the Prophet Mohammed (the "Organisations") have reached an understanding and settlement in the dispute between the Organisations and Politiken that arose out of Politiken's reprinting of the cartoon drawing of the Prophet Mohammed (the "Cartoon Drawing"), created by Mr. Kurt Westergaard, and originally published by the newspaper Jyllands-Posten on 30 September 2005 together with 11 other drawings of the Prophet Mohammed (the "Dispute).
These drawings, and in particular Mr. Westergaard's Cartoon Drawing, gave rise to civil unrest and demonstrations in many countries across the world, and in particular in Arab and Islamic countries, where the Cartoon Drawing was perceived as being defamatory of Islam and specifically of the Prophet.
