AMMAN — The
Center for Defending Freedom of Journalists (CDFJ) has lamented the recent
detentions of Jordanian journalists Taghreed Rishq and Daoud Kuttab while
returning to Jordan, according to a statement. It expressed its concern over
detentions facing journalists based on judicial complaints made against them.
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“Over the past two days, we have been following the
case of the journalist Taghreed Rishq, who was detained when entering Jordan
due to a judicial complaint,” the CDFJ said in a statement Tuesday. “She was
held at the airport for more than 12 hours until she was allowed to leave, and
that was after interventions to secure her release. All that Rishq knew during
the hours of her detention was that she was wanted over a cybercrime case filed
against her.”
The statement also mentioned the case of journalist
Daoud Kuttab, who was detained a day later at the airport. Kuttab later wrote
in AmmanNet that he was held for 90 minutes, and was told to appear at the
police station the next day over a cybercrime case related to a story he wrote
in 2019.
CDFJ affirmed that these measures represent a violation of
human rights in general, and the rights of the press specifically. It called
for urgent amendments to the
Cybercrimes Law, especially Article 11, which allows
the arrest and imprisonment of journalists and social media users underlining
that detention in this case is a kind of pre-punishment.
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