Imad al –Ash a computer science student was arrested by the government ,intelligence organization known here as the mukhabarat .the mukhabarat accused him to posting critical remarks about king’s policies on the jihadi website but Al-Ash steadfastly denies all. slandering the royals in Jordan is a crime .he said slandering the royals is crime but without a copy of the post in question .Despite ,they don’t have hard evidence which Al-Ash had written the post .a military court senrenced the student to two years in prison .Jordan has struggled to find a balance between free speech and its old restriction on the internet as more and more of its citizens go online. “In the old media, it was easier for the government to control the content, but the internet has now given the ordinary citizen an unprecedented opportunity to be a journalist,” said Yahia Shukkeir, a local journalist and expert on media and internet censorship in Jordan.
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