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Amman: Five Jordanian journalists have been sentenced to three months in jail for slander and offending the judiciary.
The Jordan Press Association condemned the ruling, which was delivered last week but only made public on Tuesday.
The association insists the ruling is prone to have a negative impact on the freedom of the press in the kingdom.
The court found chief editors of the Arabic-language dailies Ad-Dustour and Al Arab al Yawm, Saif al-Sharif and Taher al-Odwan, and two of their reporters guilty of violating the dignity of the courts.
The fifth journalist, Abdul-Hadi al-Majali, was found gulity of defamation and slander charges filed against him by the head of the government-run Jordanian Information Center.
Judicial sources said the journalists could appeal.
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