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Govt Spokesman Resigns In Protest Against Press Restrictions

You know freedom’s sliding when your country’s top government spokesman resigns to protest new restrictions on the press and free speech. Which is exactly what Jordan’s Information Minister, Taher Adwan, did. “I submitted my resignation…

Pesach Benson
June 22, 2011
12:00 am

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You know freedom’s sliding when your country’s top government spokesman resigns to protest new restrictions on the press and free speech.

Which is exactly what Jordan’s Information Minister, Taher Adwan, did.

“I submitted my resignation today to Prime Minister Maaruf Bakhit in protest at a government decision” to debate new press and publication laws in parliament that he opposed, Adwan told AFP.

While you were preoccupied with Syria and Libya, the Arab Spring rumblings reached Jordan, where the Hashemite monarchy is losing control of its Bedouins.

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Tags: Arab Spring, freedom of expression, Jordan, press freedom, Taher Adwan

Pesach Benson

A Baltimore native, Pesach was with HonestReporting from 2011 to 2020. He edited the Israel Daily News Stream and authored the e-book, Red Lines: HonestReporting’s 8 Categories of Media Bias. Before moving to Israel in 1995, he worked as a reporter for the Baltimore Jewish Times. Pesach has a B.A. in political science from the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, where he was executive editor of the campus newspaper.

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