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Riyad Abdullah, 49 years old, gave himself up to police
| ...no, two of the victim's brothers and a friend chased down the miscreant and captured him, then held him until the police arrived. At that point they turned him over to the police. Any surrendering he may have done afterward was merely posturing to pretend a Moslem murderer was not subject to citizen's arrest by lowly Christians... |
Now it has been revealed that the killer was the imam of one of Amman mosques six years ago before being dismissed by the Ministry of Religious affairs. It is understood that he is not a member of any terrorist organizations.
Abdullah was remanded for 15 days and charged with premeditated murder, a crime that is punishable by death in Jordan. He recognized his victim, he told police, through a search for his image on the Internet after the caricature of God was published on a Facebook page.
He admitted to the killing and said he did not regret what he did, adding: "Any person misrepresents the Divine Entity must be killed".
It is understood the defendant bought the gun last week, he walked, Sunday morning to the justice palace located in the region of the Abdal, and waited the victim one hour before the writer was to stand a trial.
Hattar, a Christian and an anti-Islamist activist who was a supporter of Syrian
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators...
, was placed in durance vile
Please don't kill me!
last month after he shared a caricature that depicted a bearded man in heaven smoking in bed with women and asking God to bring him wine and cashews.
Many conservative Moslem Jordanians considered Hattar’s move offensive and against their religion. The authorities said he violated the law by sharing the caricature.
Jordan Vows Crackdown on Online Incitement after Writer Murder
[AnNahar] Jordanian authorities vowed Tuesday to crack down on incitement to violence on social media, two days after the murder of a writer over which the government has faced public anger.
Justice Minister Bassam Talhuni, quoted by official news agency Petra, said that "anyone who uses social media to spread hate speech" would face charges.
"Certain acts of incitement to hatred could be defined as terrorist crimes... and we will deal with them in accordance with anti-terrorist laws," he said.
On Monday, hundreds of protesters erupted into the streets calling on the government to resign over its failure to prevent the murder of Christian writer Nahed Hattar.
Hattar's family says the authorities were warned of threats to Hattar's life, including from his assailant, and of personal attacks on social media but had failed to take action.
The interior ministry said Tuesday an unspecified number of arrests had been made in connection with incitement to "hatred and confessional discord" on social networking sites. They included a social media user who set up a Facebook page campaigning for the release of Hattar's killer, who gave himself up to police at the scene and faces a charge of premeditated murder.