Jordan arrests journalists over sex article

Jordan’s government has arrested three journalists and closed a newspaper over a newspaper article discussing Muhammad’s sex life, according to this brief AP article.


The government closed the
Crescent
weekly newspaper and detained three journalists for an article that
discussed the sex life of the Prophet Muhammad and his favorite wife,
Aisha, an editor at the paper said. Officials detained the editor in
chief, a senior assistant editor and the writer of the article for 15
days, the official Petra news agency reported. The journalists were
accused of “harming the dignity of Prophet Muhammad’s wife Aisha,”
harming the government and destabilizing society.

– AP, Jordan: Paper shut for sex article.