The Jordanian Penal Code prohibits anyone from blaspheming religion, demeaning religious feelings, or insulting prophets.
[4] On or about 25 June 2009, the magistrate's court ruled that twenty-seven-year-old Samhan should spend one year in prison and pay a fine of 10,000 dinars.
[5] On 1 July 2008, a Jordanian prosecutor charged eleven Danes and one Dutchman, with blasphemy and contempt of Muslims.
One of the charged Danes was the cartoonist who, in 2005, drew a caricature of Mohammed and other cartoons for the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
In January 2003, authorities in Jordan arrested three Jordanian journalists: Nasser Qamash, Roman Haddad and Muhannad Mbaidin for blaspheming Mohammed in Al Hilal, a weekly newspaper.