Ammon News - AMMONNEWS - Jordanian electronic news websites on Tuesday announced that it will begin "electronic disobedience," expressing rejection of the 2012 Press and Publications Law endorsed by King Abdullah Sunday.

The announcement came after a meeting held at the protest tent set up by journalists in Queen Rania al Abdullah Street (dubbed Press Street) on Tuesday in which the Coordination Group for Electronic Websites, the Electronic Press Association, and the electronic Websites Columnist Association expressed rejection of the amendments to the law passed by both chambers of parliament last week.

A press statement by the group blasted the law as "targeting and lowering the ceiling of press freedoms, and to cast darkness on corruption cases often exposed by online media."

Journalists and activists decided to also form a "civil alliance" against the new law, to be announced next Saturday in a press conference held at the protest tent.

The statement stressed the need to unleash restrictions on the media, allow for independent press, warning that it will not stand still in the face of attacks on press freedoms, particularly electronic news websites.

They called on the "Free World" and international freedoms watchdogs to support Jordan's electronic media, which is facing "the most dangerous attack since its inception," according to their expression, and called on them to pressure the Jordanian government to reverse the law.

"News websites will continue to expose the truth because the crisis is in the reality [the country is going through] not in news websites," the statement concluded.