A student of the University of Ibid in Jordan has been
accused of lees majesty and "causing national conflicts" on a poem he
denies writing that criticized the king, Human Rights Watch reported on 3
September 2010. Hakim al-Shula was arrested at his university on July 25, after
flying with the name of the poem were distributed throughout the campus.
Al-Shula, which states that only knew of flying after being told by friends, she called the police after being confronted by three fellow students about the poem, and the four were arrested. Al-Shula has been in remand prison Balsa 'from 29 July and the military prosecutor denied their requests for bail.
Jordan is a state party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, including the right to freedom of expression. However, the Jordanian law stipulates that anyone convicted of insulting the king jailed for between one and three years and there are several other laws that restrict freedom of expression.
Al-Shula, which states that only knew of flying after being told by friends, she called the police after being confronted by three fellow students about the poem, and the four were arrested. Al-Shula has been in remand prison Balsa 'from 29 July and the military prosecutor denied their requests for bail.
Jordan is a state party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, including the right to freedom of expression. However, the Jordanian law stipulates that anyone convicted of insulting the king jailed for between one and three years and there are several other laws that restrict freedom of expression.
Since King Abdullah dissolved parliament in November 2009, the government has adopted numerous laws "temporary" without parliamentary approval.
Iran: Universities dissidents must be 'destroyed'
Iranian Minister of Science, Karman Daneshjou said publicly that all universities oppose the Iranian government were devastated, Radio Free Europe reported on 31 August 2010.
On August 29, Daneshjou was quoted in the Iranian press saying that "if the supreme leader says something which is absolutely disagree with our views, we must obey, no questions asked."
He even claimed that the documents showing that foreign intelligence agencies are trying to influence students against the Iranian government made public in the near future.
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Kamenev recently expressed a similar sentiment, saying that universities were the objectives of "conspiracies of the enemies."
Universities and student movements in particular are often a focus of dissent in Iran.
The former leader Ali Afghani told RFE student-Radio Liberty to follow and support the Iranian regime would be "against the essence of a university" and "a conspiracy of the enemies of Iran against universities in Iran is just a myth that the establishment uses to justify its suppressive restrictive measures against the universities. "
Many students and teachers were imprisoned in Iran and fired 20 Daneshjou chancellors of the university in the last three months.
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