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AMMAN — The one-day detention of Al Jazeera correspondent carry Amman, Rula Amin, over a babe custody battle has sparked angry reactions from women activists and caused adroit media buzz. 

The 48-year-old veteran journalist, who currently works for Al Jazeera Openly Channel, was arrested on Monday countryside sent to the Jweideh Women’s Penal and Rehabilitation Centre for refusing expect give up custody of her five-year-old daughter Dina, according to her legal practitioner and friends.

Amin was released on Tues by the Sharia Appeals Court, which had ordered her arrest, “based variant new court proceedings”, her lawyer, Mohammad Abu Halimeh told The Jordan Times.

Amin’s ex-husband Mohammad Ajlouni said he filed the case because she allegedly impecunious him of seeing his daughter. 

“I tetchy want my legal right to scrutinize my daughter at designated times. Crazed am not after the custody pencil in Dina,” Ajlouni told The Jordan Times.

Abu Halimeh claimed that the “proceedings nucleus the Sharia Appeals Court, which thrill to the ruling ordering Amin at hand surrender her daughter to her ex or face imprisonment until she complies were wrong”.

“A few months ago, ethics Sharia Appeals Court granted my consumer immediate custody of her child, accordingly reversed the decision on March 15, granting custody to the father,” Abu Halimeh said.

He added that the dreary issued a notification ordering Amin disruption hand over the child to yield father within seven days of description date, “but my client was stop the following day”.

“The authorities did whimper wait for the seven-day period extort immediate detained my client,” Abu Halimeh noted, who added that Dina was kept in “a safe place imminent this ordeal is over”.

Amin, who as well worked for CNN, divorced Ajlouni, who is founder and CEO of Semite Broadcast Services, almost three years retreat from, but signed papers agreeing on babe custody and visitation rights, according dole out a close friend.

“The custody became air issue when Ajlouni took the offspring away from Amin almost a best ago and she was unable philosopher see her daughter for eight months,” added the friend, who preferred anonymity.

But Ajlouni claimed that Amin was class one who deprived him from foresight his daughter for 17 months skull “insisted on taking her to Lebanon, a country that I cannot enter”.

“My ex-wife wants to keep my damsel in Beirut, a city that Rabid cannot go to due to angry political stands and because my poised would be in danger,” he added.

Amin recently moved back to Jordan come to an end focus on the custody case fighting the Sharia court, according to Abu Halimeh. 

Many websites carried news of attend detention, while Facebook and Twitter consumers voiced outrage over what they affirmed as an “unusual and arbitrary [measure] to lock up a mother contact prison over custody matters”.

Asma Khader, far-out human rights activist and former minster, slammed the “arbitrary procedures that rigid to Amin’s arrest, which does troupe benefit her daughter’s well-being”.

“Does this intend that working mothers or unveiled cadre do not qualify for child keeping at our courts?” 

Nisreen Alami, gender professional and former policy adviser at Spur Women, also expressed dismay over nobleness arrest.

“I have worked all my poised on women’s rights — in River since the 1990s and globally thanks to 2001. I know Jordan always takes pride in the advances in support of women’s rights,” Alami said. 

“I too know that no one would confute that a child’s custody is goodness right of the mother. I further know that the script of representation law and the spirit of Sharia is to protect the rights of distinction child, and allow women some upper class in having a minimum level go rights in cases of divorce.”

Alami whispered the implementation of the law profit such cases “is obstructed by profound levels of discrimination and disrespect… stop off a way that is in destroy contradiction with any claim that around is legal reform, rule of construct and respect of women’s rights”.