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The International Press Institute (IPI) has called on Jordanian authorities to urgently review the country’s cybercrime law following the arrest of two journalists earlier this month at Amman airport. On March 6, Jordanian journalist Taghreed Risheq, who is a manager at the NGO Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) was detained and questioned for twelve hours at the airport over a tweet she posted in January. Two days later, Palestinian journalist Daoud Kuttab, who runs Community Media network was detained at the airport over a 2020 article he published about a Jordanian-American investor wh…