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Amnesty International has called for Jordanian authorities to free the well-known journalist Ahmad Hassan Al-Zoubi. Al-Zoubi was arrested on Tuesday by security forces implementing a 2023 court order, which sentenced him to jail over a Facebook post critical of the authorities’ response to transportation strikes. “No one should be imprisoned simply for expressing criticism of the authorities on social media,” said Aya Majzoub, Amnesty’s deputy director for the Middle East and North Africa. “Ahmad Hassan Al-Zoubi’s detention is part of a widespread, ongoing crackdown on dissent in Jordan which …

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