Jordan refuses review prison sentence of satirist al-Zoubi ...Kuwait

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Jordan refuses review prison sentence of satirist al-Zoubi
The Jordanian Minister of Justice refused the request to re-examine the case of famed Jordan satirist Ahmad Hassan al-Zoubi, who was sentenced to a year in prison over comments on one of his Facebook posts, al-Zoubi told The New Arab on Thursday, 21 September. Al-Zoubi, a playwright and satirist critical of Jordanian politics in the past, was sentenced to a year in prison in August after a court accused him of promoting "sectarian strife" via a Facebook post. The post in question criticised the state's response to widespread protests over fuel prices in late 2022, which led to the killing of a police officer in southern Jordan. The sentencing of al-Zoubi provoked ange

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