Tuesday, March 28, 2006

Dictatorships that you like: "Jordanian journalists stopped work for one hour on Tuesday in protest at the government’s adoption of an amendment to the country’s press law that allows the authorities to detain and jail reporters. “The work stoppage comes as a protest against the government’s failure to include clauses in the amendment that unequivocally exclude the imprisonment or detention of journalists,” head of the Jordanian journalists syndicate Tarek Momani said....The clause in question was apparently introduced after editors of two local weeklies were recently detained for reprinting blasphemous cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed that were initially published by a Danish newspaper."