Index on Censorship » Alaa Fazza http://www.indexoncensorship.org for free expression Sat, 18 May 2013 18:40:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 for free expression Index on Censorship no for free expression Index on Censorship » Alaa Fazza http://www.indexoncensorship.org/wp-content/uploads/powerpress/Free_Speech_Bites_Logo.jpg http://www.indexoncensorship.org King Abdullah orders release of Jordanian journalist http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2011/06/king-abdullah-orders-release-of-jordanian-journalist/ http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2011/06/king-abdullah-orders-release-of-jordanian-journalist/#comments Thu, 02 Jun 2011 11:43:16 +0000 Index on Censorship http://www.indexoncensorship.org/?p=23288 Jordanian journalist, Alaa Fazza, was released from prison Wednesday, on the orders of King Abdullah II yesterday (1 June), the country’s independence day. Fazza was been detained 14 days by a military court on charges that he had accused the government of corruption without submitting evidence to the Attorney General. In a letter to Prime [...]

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]]> on the orders of King Abdullah II yesterday (1 June), the country’s independence day. Fazza was been detained 14 days by a military court on charges that he had accused the government of corruption without submitting evidence to the Attorney General. In a letter to Prime Minister Marouf Bakhit, King Abdullah cautioned about the “danger of the behavior of some who take the denunciation of corruption as an excuse for the character assassination of individuals and institutions.”

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