Posts Tagged ‘Jordan’
June 21st, 2011
On Saturday the Agence France-Presse bureau in
Amman was attacked. The office was reportedly stormed by a dozen men armed with clubs who smashed furniture and telephones and threw files to the ground. Two days before the attack, editor in chief Randa Habib was threatened by an anonymous caller after the
agency reported that stones and bottles had been thrown at
King Abdallah’s motorcade during a visit to a settlement 200km north of the capital. Jordan’s Minister of State for Communications and Media Affairs, Taher Adwan, said that reports of violence by some media agencies were
groundless.
June 2nd, 2011
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 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.”
April 21st, 2011
Six men raided the office of a news website, Al-Muharrir, in Amman on 19 April. Unidentified men
broke into the personal office of editor-in-chief Jihad Abu Baidar and threatened to kill him if he did not withdraw a report criticising the country’s Anti-Corruption Commission. Baidar subsequently filed a police complaint. A number of journalists staged a sit-in at the
Jordan Press Association premises to
protest the incident.
February 9th, 2011
Jordan’s most visited news website, Ammonnews, was frozen by
hackers for several hours on Monday. The cyber attack came a day after the website had published a statement critical of the government by representatives of 36 major tribes. The website’s chief editor Basel Okoor
blamed state intelligence services for the disruption saying, “Only the Jordanian security services have the technical capacity to do this”. Government officials
dismissed the charges and maintained that they had no hand in disabling the website.
March 17th, 2010
A
media ban on a corruption trial involving several leading Jordanian figures and the former Minister of Finance has been issued by a military court in Amman. The case, involving the
Jordan Petroleum Refinery Company, first came to light after revelations in the media. Now only reports personally approved by Attorney General Yousef Faouri may be published, in order, court officers claimed, to allow the judicial authorities to work calmly on the case.
March 17th, 2010
A recent report by the OpenNet Initiative has revealed that search terms in both Arabic and English relating to homosexuality are censored in some Middle Eastern countries. The study showed that the level of censorship on Microsoft’s Bing ranged from
‘substantial’ to ‘pervasive’ and ‘selective’ in Algeria, Syria, Jordan and United Arab Emirates. Other sexually explicit search terms were also found to be censored.
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June 25th, 2009
Poet Islam Samhan has been sentenced to one year in prison and fined of 10,000 dinars (approx. US$14,100), after he used verses from the Quran in his poetry.
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March 20th, 2008
Five Jordanian journalists have been sentenced to prison terms in two separate defamation cases in the past week. Editor Taher al-Adwan and reporter Sahar Qassam, of
Al Arab al Youm, and former editor of
Ad Dustour Osama Sharif and
Ad Dustour reporter Fayez Louzi were each sentenced on 13 March to three months for ‘insulting the judiciary and commenting on its rulings’.
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