Arabic News Weekly Edition for Jordan, 2/17/2003
Weekly Edition, Jordan - Week of February 17, 2003
- Jordanian king denies neglecting political development
The Jordanian King has met with a group of university students representing Amman's al-Ahleyah University and talked to them about various local and Arab political and economic issues. He denied neglecting political development in the country and called for uniting the parties. Jordan, Politics, 2/22/2003 - Two Jordanian journalists freed, a third was arrested
A Jordanian judicial source said on Wednesday that the Jordanian military court released two out of three journalists working in the Jordanian weekly al-Hilal ( the Crescent ) who were sentenced to imprisonment because of an article focused on the private relation between prophet Muhammad and his wife Aisha, after the two men paid a financial fine. Jordan, Politics, 2/21/2003 - Report warns the Jordanian government: Maan incidents was: red warning
At the economic level, the report said, according to results of official investigation that the average income per capita for the people of Maan decreased at 20% from the national level, while unemployment rate is 19.2% against a national rate of 14.7%, while illiteracy in Maan increases to 19%. The highest rate in Jordan.. Jordan, Politics, 2/20/2003