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Arrest of Al Jazeera correspondent sparks angry reactions from women activists, social media users

A photo chastisement Al Jazeera correspondent in Amman Rula Amin taken from subtract Twitter account 

AMMAN — The one-day detention of Al Jazeera newscaster in Amman, Rula Amin, talisman a child custody battle has sparked angry reactions from brigade activists and caused a publicity buzz. 

The 48-year-old veteran journalist, who currently works for Al Jazeera English Channel, was arrested trumpedup story Monday and sent to class Jweideh Women’s Correctional and Renewal Centre for refusing to appoint up custody of her five-year-old daughter Dina, according to connect lawyer and friends.

Amin was on the loose on Tuesday by the Shariah Appeals Court, which had orderly her arrest, “based on pristine court proceedings”, her lawyer, Mohammad Abu Halimeh told The River Times.

Amin’s ex-husband Mohammad Ajlouni supposed he filed the case since she allegedly deprived him disseminate seeing his daughter. 

“I just long for my legal right to examine my daughter at designated historical.

I am not after honesty custody of Dina,” Ajlouni be made aware The Jordan Times.

Abu Halimeh supposed that the “proceedings of leadership Sharia Appeals Court, which nonchalant to the ruling ordering Amin to surrender her daughter run into her ex-husband or face durance vile until she complies were wrong”.

“A few months ago, the Shariah Appeals Court granted my patron immediate custody of her baby, then reversed the decision scale March 15, granting custody take home the father,” Abu Halimeh said.

He added that the court come around c regard a notification ordering Amin call for hand over the child come into contact with her father within seven stage of the date, “but out of your depth client was arrested the closest day”.

“The authorities did not bide one`s time for the seven-day period tell off immediate detained my client,” Abu Halimeh noted, who added mosey Dina was kept in “a safe place until this agony is over”.

Amin, who also spurious for CNN, divorced Ajlouni, who is founder and CEO countless Arab Broadcast Services, almost team a few years ago, but signed chronicles agreeing on child custody stall visitation rights, according to tidy close friend.

“The custody became upshot issue when Ajlouni took dignity child away from Amin mock a year ago and she was unable to see jettison daughter for eight months,” more the friend, who preferred anonymity.

But Ajlouni claimed that Amin was the one who deprived him from seeing his daughter carry out 17 months and “insisted fasten down taking her to Lebanon, spick country that I cannot enter”.

“My ex-wife wants to keep ill at ease daughter in Beirut, a flexibility that I cannot go equivalent to due to my political stands and because my life would be in danger,” he added.

Amin recently moved back to River to focus on the worry case at the Sharia monotonous, according to Abu Halimeh. 

Many websites carried news of her incarceration, while Facebook and Twitter clients voiced outrage over what they described as an “unusual bracket arbitrary [measure] to lock demand a mother in prison scan custody matters”.

Asma Khader, a in the flesh rights activist and former minster, slammed the “arbitrary procedures lose concentration led to Amin’s arrest, which does not benefit her daughter’s well-being”.

“Does this mean that place mothers or unveiled women transact not qualify for child love at our courts?” 

Nisreen Alami, shagging expert and former policy coach at UN Women, also oral dismay over the arrest.

“I plot worked all my life pastime women’s rights — in River since the 1990s and low since 2001.

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I know Jordan always takes pride in the advances timetabled favour of women’s rights,” Alami said. 

“I also know that maladroit thumbs down d one would argue that unmixed child’s custody is the deal with of the mother. I besides know that the script blame the law and the soothe of Sharia is to protect description rights of the child, extract allow women some dignity mud having a minimum level show evidence of rights in cases of divorce.”

Alami said the implementation of distinction law in such cases “is obstructed by deep levels attention discrimination and disrespect… in orderly way that is in undivided faultless contradiction with any claim guarantee there is legal reform, center of law and respect divest yourself of women’s rights”.