AMMAN - Scores of journalists converged at the Jordan Press Association (JPA) on Thursday to show their solidarity with Al Ghad journalist Yousef Damra, who was threatened after publishing an article exposing a major fraud case.

The demonstration was joined by Minister of State for Media Affairs and Communications Rakan Majali, who reiterated the government’s rejection of recent acts of intimidation against journalists.

The story, according to Damra, started in April when he started writing about victims of fraud.

He added that his last article, dated October 19, exposed a JD3 million real estate fraud case...Read More

Prominent Egyptian blogger and activist Alaa Abdel Fattah was summoned today to Cairo’s notorious C28 military prosecution headquarters to face charges of incitement to violence in the violent 9 October Maspero clashes between Coptic-Christian protesters and military police.

Abdel Fattah, who rejects the notion of civilians being tried by military courts, has refused to be interrogated by military prosecutors as a matter of principle. He has also vociferously criticised the idea that the military prosecution should investigate the Maspero clashes, in which military police were directly involved...Read More