Amman journalist released at the directives of the king

A Jordanian official source said on Tuesday that at the directive of the Jordanian King Abdullah Bin al-Hussein, Jordanian journalist Senan Shaqdeh, who works in the Jordanian independent daily al-Masa'eyah, was released.

The Jordanian intelligence arrested the said journalist on Sunday July 25 and presented him to the court under charges of "contacting foreign sides and damaging the interests of the country through publishing articles distorting Jordan's relations with a sisterly Arab state."

A Jordanian source said this country is meant to be Syria.

This is the second time a Jordanian journallst has been arrested since the formation of the new Jordanian government in March this year.