Cartoons: Jordan editor arrested
04/02/2006 17:22  - (SA)  

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Amman - A Jordanian tabloid editor was arrested on Saturday after his newspaper published controversial cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammed.

Jihad Momani, editor-in-chief of the weekly gossip newspaper Shihane, was fired on Friday after his newspaper printed three of the cartoons.

Jordanian authorities have pledged to "open an investigation" into a smaller tabloid, Al-Mehwar, which printed the caricatures in its January 26 edition.

A Jordanian judiciary official said: "The fact alone that this weekly (Al-Mehwar) reproduced these cartoons renders its editor-in-chief Hashem al-Khalidi responsible before the law."

Al-Mehwar had reprinted the 12 cartoons to accompany an article on widespread denunciation of the images, and claimed to be the "first Arab newspaper to have alerted the Arab world to these cartoons, discovered on the internet."

On Friday, Jordan's King Abdullah II said: "insulting the prophet Mohammed is a crime that cannot be justified under the pretext of freedom of expression."

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