The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned the killing of prominent Jordanian writer Nahed Hattar, who was gunned down yesterday outside a courthouse in the capital Amman where he was to stand trial for a social media post sharing a satirical cartoon deemed offensive to Islam. A controversial political commentator and columnist, Hattar, 56, was […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today called on the United Arab Emirates to release a Jordanian journalist who has been detained for eight-and-a-half months, reportedly without charge. Tayseer al-Najjar, who works as culture reporter for the Emirates-based newspaper Dar, was prevented from flying to Jordan in December and then detained on Dec. 13. He was […]

Investigative journalists working with Jordan’s Community Media Network – which runs AmmanNet and Radio al Balad, and which I am proud to manage – were among the hundreds of professional journalists worldwide carefully selected by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) on the basis of geography and previous experience to participate in coverage of […]

The following article was originally published on April 26, 2017 in the Jordan Times. In its annual report issued on the eve of Press Freedom Day, the Centre for the Defence of the Freedom of Journalists (CDFJ) gave mixed marks to Jordan for its record. On the one hand, the number of press freedom violations […]