Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the immediate release of an investigative reporter who has become the first journalist in Jordan to receive a prison sentence under the country’s draconian cybercrime law, which RSF denounced prior to its adoption last year.
…it’s a monarchy.
If anyone you read, or know, ever refers to a monarchy as progressive, you can immediately disregard everything they ever write, or say.
The only context where it’s at least explainable would be in a limited to direct comparison between Jordan and the other regional monarchs with large petroleum reserves.
it’s also a tribal country. Pretty much all Jordanians belong to different tribes and they still have all that honor stuff.
I don’t know, isn’t Sweden technically a monarchy?
Sweden is technically a monarchy but a constitutional one. Jordan is actually a traditional monarchy, just weakly pretending to be a constitutional one.
The Netherlands is also a monarchy, and Denmark.