Jordanian lawmakers enacted a repressive cybercrimes law last year, to the alarm of human rights advocates who forecast that officials in the Middle Eastern kingdom could use it to subdue dissent. Now, those very same advocates say that Jordanian authorities have harassed, arrested, and detained scores...
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Jordanian King Abdullah II approved a new bill Saturday that would impose strict penalties on online speech deemed harmful to national unity, a move that human rights groups warn will stifle free speech in a country where censorship is on the rise, the Associated Press...
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Jordanian lawmakers voted this week to recommend the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador in protest against comments by Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich about Palestinians, Al Jazeera reported. Last week, Smotrich caused a furor during a private memorial service in France, where he said that Palestinians...
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Three police officers have been killed and five wounded in a raid over the weekend on the suspected killer of a high-ranking police officer shot dead during protests against high fuel prices that have swept Jordan, the Emirate-based the National reported. The suspect behind the death...
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At least 13 people were killed and 250 were injured Tuesday when a crane lifting gas tanks onto a ship in Jordan dropped one, spewing plumes of deadly yellow smoke into the air, the Washington Post reported. State media posted a video showing a storage tank...
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