Ammon News - AMMONNEWS-The Jordan Press Association JPA on Tuesday asked Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour to suspend the newly-endorsed press and publications law and consult the media body to arrive at "conciliatory" legislation.

The passage of the law has stirred a controversy with many professionals seeing it as curtailing media and press freedoms.

The association said a new law should satisfy "all parties" and bypass the standoff stirred by the previous government by approving the amended law without consulting the association and other stakeholders.

JPA spokesman Thaher Al Damen said the association pins high hopes on the premier who opposed the draft when it was presented to the Lower House of which he was a member and who considered it as "a step backward."




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