Minsk, Belarus ? A small independent newspaper in Belarus has reprinted the cartoons of Prophet Muhammad that set off violent riots across the Muslim world, an editor said Wednesday. The government condemned the publication and said it was not in line with its policy.

The European Union’s representative to Sudan said the controversy over the prophet drawings sparked attacks on foreign aid workers in the troubled Darfur region.

In Belarus, the weekly Zgoda on Saturday reprinted some of the 12 drawings, said Alexander Sdvizhkov, the paper’s deputy chief editor.

“We did the right thing by speaking out against Islamic hysteria,” Sdvizhkov told The Associated Press on Wednesday.