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Bahraini editor, woman activist questioned after complaint by Islamic court
Jordan Times, 5/28/03
MANAMA (AFP) — The chief editor of the Bahraini daily Akhbar Al Khaleej, Anwar Abdul Rahman, said on Tuesday he was questioned by the public prosecutor after 10 judges from the justice ministry's Islamic tribunal accused him of slander.
Abdul Rahman said the judges lodged their complaint over a report in his newspaper on a sit-in staged by a female activist outside the justice ministry last month after an Islamic court denied her custody of her children.
The editor said he was interrogated on Monday and released on bail of 1,000 dinars (around $3,000).
Ghada Jamshir, a women's rights activist, was also summoned for questioning by the public prosecutor on Tuesday after the same judges accused her of defamation for supporting the woman who was denied custody of her two daughters, according to Jamshir's lawyer Abdullah Hashem.
Jamshir heads a women's committee lobbying for the promulgation of a personal status law that would shift jurisdiction over family and women's affairs to civil courts. Her committee considers Islamic courts discriminatory towards women.
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| The Israeli apartheid (security) wall around Palestinian population centers (Ran Cohen, pmc, 5/24/03). |
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| The Israeli apartheid (security) wall around Palestinian population centers in the West Bank (Ran Cohen, pmc, 5/24/03). |