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Jordan: sending emails and writing online poems can send you to prison!

Categories: Middle East & North Africa, Jordan, Freedom of Speech

[More on GV Advocacy… [1]] Ahmad Oweidi al-Abbadi [2], the 62-year-old former parliamentarian and leader of the Jordanian National Movement [3], was sentenced to two years in prison [4] for “undermining state dignity”, “sending false news through emails” and “illegally distributing leaflets.”

Mohammed Al-Zohairi, or “Al Qaeda Poet [5]” , has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for writing and publishing poems [6] on Jihadi websites praising Al Qaeda leader Osama Ben Laden.