Jun 05 2007
The end of censorship?
This is the full version of the article ( an edited version appeared in the Jordan Times)
The end of censorship?
Daoud Kuttab,
THE JERUSALEM POST Jun. 4, 2007
Quietly and without any fanfare, the decades-old censorship laws on the books in Jordan were scrapped earlier this month. The official gazette published an amendment to the regulation which ends the work of the government censors.
The head of the department of press and publication, Marwan Qteishat, says in media reports that Jordan is now like most other countries in which publishers may print whatever they wish without any prior censorship. The public at large, of course, is free to fight in court against any book they deem violates them or their community.