Jordan: Toujan al-Faisal released

Submitted by wluml on Sun, 06/30/2002 - 23:00

Middle East
Jordan
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Toujan al-Faisal has been released and vows to continue the fight against corruption.

Jordan's first woman MP has been freed from prison after a 29 day hunger strike to protest about higher car insurance fees which, she says, hurt the country's poorest people.

Source:

BBC

Headline URL:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/2071812.stm