The main information website in Jordan, Ammon News, was forced into temporary closure, Monday, Feb. 7, on "order of the security services" according to his Jordanian editor, Basel Okoor. The closure occurred just after the launch of a news personalities critical of the government. The signatories of this statement - thirty-six individuals belonging to the major tribes in Jordan, backbones of the plan - violently criticized the "power crisis" and "Digging in Corruption" in Jordan, saying the kingdom would face "sooner or later" a revolt People.
Since its reopening, a few hours later, the site has reissued the statement in question, but by removing paragraphs virulent against the royal family. The editor of the site had said that morning that "Ammon News [had] been completely hacked and closed." "The only institution with the technical capacity to do so are the Jordanian intelligence services," he said.
We received a message that said: 'You work against the interests of the country, we'll hack', which was the case a few minutes later ", added Mr. Okoor. Ammon News, established in 2006, is the first news site to be launched in Jordan. Since then, some fifty others have appeared, but Ammon News is leading the popularity polls, with 250,000 daily readers, according to measurement firm Alexa Internet streams.
After the announcement of the closure of the site, journalists staged a sit-in support to the journalists' union in Amman on Monday to protest against the closure of the site. 
Since its reopening, a few hours later, the site has reissued the statement in question, but by removing paragraphs virulent against the royal family. The editor of the site had said that morning that "Ammon News [had] been completely hacked and closed." "The only institution with the technical capacity to do so are the Jordanian intelligence services," he said.
We received a message that said: 'You work against the interests of the country, we'll hack', which was the case a few minutes later ", added Mr. Okoor. Ammon News, established in 2006, is the first news site to be launched in Jordan. Since then, some fifty others have appeared, but Ammon News is leading the popularity polls, with 250,000 daily readers, according to measurement firm Alexa Internet streams.
After the announcement of the closure of the site, journalists staged a sit-in support to the journalists' union in Amman on Monday to protest against the closure of the site.
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