Arab Times (US)
Not to be confused with Arab Times. Arab Times is an Arab-American newspaper, published in the US since 1986.[1]
The Committee to Protect Journalists reports that a letter published in the Arab Times triggered the arrest and conviction of Toujan Faisal.[2][3][4] Faisal, Jordan's first female member of parliament, leveled accusations of corruption against Jordanian Prime Minister Ali Aboul Ragheb.[5]
Arab Times' print version is published in Houston, Texas, and is distributed to at least 35 other states in the US. The newspaper is distributed around the world in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Canada. The online version is available to subscribers in the U.S., Canada, Europe and the Middle East.[6]
In 1994, a Virginia jury awarded Shameem Noel Rassam, a former radio and television personality from Iraq, compensatory punitive damages for allegedly libelous statements made against her by Arab Times. The damages totalled $159,000 ($3,000 in compensatory damages and $50,000 in punitive damages for each of three charges). Representing himself, the Editor-in-Chief and owner of Arab Times filed a brief before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit appealing against the jury verdict. In a 1996 per curiam opinion, and without hearing oral argument, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals panel found insufficient evidence to support any damages for two of the three charges, thereby reversing $106,000 of the damages.[7]
References
- ↑ "Arab Times". Araboo. http://www.araboo.com/site/arab-arabtimes-10050. "The most distributed Arab-American weekly newspaper published in the US, reporting news of interest to Arabs and Arab-Americans since 1986."
- ↑ "PRESS CRACKDOWN CONTINUES". Committee to Protect Journalists. 2002-03-20. https://cpj.org/2002/03/press-crackdown-continues.php. "In a separate incident, former member of Parliament Toujan Faisal was detained on March 16 on the charge of "publishing materials deemed harmful to the country's reputation and that of its citizens," her lawyer told CPJ. The charge stemmed from an open letter to King Abdullah accusing government officials of corruption that was published in the Houston-based, Arabic-language online newspaper Arab Times."
- ↑ "Former Parliament member sentenced for publishing "false information"". Committee to Protect Journalists. 2002-05-17. https://cpj.org/2002/05/former-parliament-member-sentenced-for-publishing.php. "The case against al-Faisal came after she penned an open letter to Your Majesty in the Houston-based online publication Arab Times in March accusing Prime Minister Ali Aboul Ragheb of corruption."
- ↑ "Attacks on the Press 2002: Jordan". Committee to Protect Journalists. 2002. https://cpj.org/2003/03/attacks-on-the-press-2002-jordan.php.
- ↑ "Jordan arrests Toujan al-Faisal for 'dishonoring dignity of the state'". Arabic News. 2002-03-18. Archived from the original on 2002-11-02. https://web.archive.org/web/20021102204740/http://arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/020318/2002031819.html. "She had also an article in a Arab Times in which she accused the government of Ali Abu al-Ragheb of recently doubling the cost of car insurance, for serving personal gains and interests. The said article on 3-6-2002 was a sort of an open message to the Jordanian King Abdullah II, in which she accused the prime minister of sealing the public assets by various means by imposing several amendments on the income tax law, besides increasing indirect and direct fees and taxes on citizens and a recession in public services."
- ↑ "Yahoo's Directory listing for Arabtimes.com". Yahoo. http://yahoo.domaintools.com/arabtimes.com. "Circulated to subscribers in the U.S., Canada, Europe and the Middle East. In Arabic."
- ↑ "United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit" (PDF)". US Department of Justice. http://pacer.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinion.pdf/931960.U.pdf. Retrieved 2012-05-31.
