Good Governance

Journalism under fire: Jailed for exposing Jordan

In Jordan, failing at self-censorship can land you in jail. Literally.

Freelance journalist Hiba Abu Taha, a passionate pro-resistance Jordanian of Palestinian origin, refused to self-censor. On 11 June, the Magistrate Court in Amman sentenced her to a harsh one-year prison term for violating the kingdom’s controversial Cybercrimes Law introduced last year.

This was due to an article she wrote for Lebanese news site, Annasher, criticizing “Jordan’s role in defending the enemy entity.” The article was published on 22 April, eight days after Jordanian, US, British, and French aircraft intercepted Iranian drones and rockets over Jordanian airspace heading towards Israeli targets.

However, Abu Taha was arrested on 13 May after Annasher published her investigative report on 28 April titled “Partners in extermination: Jordanian capital owners involved in Gaza genocide.” The timing of her arrest gave the impression that she was detained for exposing Jordanian companies transporting exports to Israel — a land corridor that government officials went out of their way to publicly deny amid growing popular outrage at Amman’s continued ties with Tel Aviv while it commits the Gaza genocide.

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They never came for me, because I was not a real journalist

A message from history to my fellow journalists on the British state’s persecution of Asa Winstanley

JONATHAN COOK

First they came for Julian Assange
And I did not speak out
Because I was not Julian Assange
Then they came for the Palestinian journalists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Palestinian journalist
Then they came for the independent journalists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not an independent journalist
Then they came for the investigative journalists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not an investigative journalist
They never came for me
And I never spoke out
Because I was not a real journalist