May 17, 2002	Friday	Rabi-ul-Awwal 4, 1423

PARIS, May 16: A cyber-journalist, who also happens to be Jordan’s first female member of the parliament, goes on trial for having written articles considered as defamatory to Jordan and its authorities.

She is also accused of having insulted the country’s legal system in an interview with the Qatari satellite TV network, Al- Jazeera, in which she denounced the corruption of Jordan’s courts. She faces up to three years in prison for this offence.

According to Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF), Toujan el-Faisal, a former TV journalist and member of Parliament, is facing trial before the “State Security Court” in Amman on charges of “damaging the reputation of the state and its officials abroad”.