Background The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is a constitutional monarchy in which executive and legislative authority is primarily vested in the king, who is supported by a bicameral parliament.1 Although Jordanian law mandates freedom of speech...

To view this bulletin as a PDF, click here. Overview Microsoft recently added a new layer of complexity to the ongoing debate regarding the filtering and censorship practices of U.S. search engines via its own search engine, Bing. ONI testing reveals liberal...

Jordan has long stood out as a beacon in a region of heavy Internet filtering. Bordered by--among others--Syria and Saudi Arabia, two of the Middle East's worst offenders, Jordan has filtered only one Web site, arabtimes.com, for the past decade. That...

PDF Version Note: a newer version of this profile is available at Country Profiles: Jordan. Overview Access to Internet content in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan remains largely unfettered, with filtering selectively applied to only a small number of sites. However, media...

ONI found no evidence of Internet tampering in Jordan during the November 20 parliamentary elections despite claims by the main opposition party that the polls were marred by vote-rigging and electoral fraud. ONI, through in-country testers, monitored online activities and accessibility...

A Jordanian scholar has been held in prison since May 2007 for violating Jordan's e-mail laws, the Los Angeles Times reported. The 62-year-old former parliamentarian "wrote e-mails decrying alleged corruption and human rights violations in Jordan to officials and newspapers," the...