An Israeli woman sentenced to two years in prison for portraying the Islamic prophet Mohammed as a pig asked the Supreme Court to reduce her sentence. An emigre from Russia in 1991, Tatyana Suskin, 26, was convicted of distributing the offending posters last June in the West Bank town of Hebron. Her action touched off days of clashes in Hebron and sparked outrage throughout the Arab world.
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