Cairo - On 25 September 2016, the late Jordanian writer Nahed Hattar, 56, was fatally shot ahead of a trial before the courthouse in Jordan's capital Amman. He was accused of sharing a caricature deemed offensive to Islam on his Facebook page. Hattar was an outspoken leftist, secular writer and a self-described Christian atheist, known for his controversial views on issues regarding refugees, his support of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad and his hostility to movements of political Islam. Nahed Hattar was also a prolific author and writer who published nearly 50 books and thousands of articles in several newspapers. The second edition of his recent work, "False Spring: Critique of Arab Revolutions" was published earlier this year. During a seminar held at Cairo International Book Fair, his brother Mr. Khaled Hattar remarked: "Even though my late brother, Nahed, was arrested several times, and received death threats more than once, neither did he bow down nor retract his ideas and views, pointing out that his life of constant struggles foreshadowed such a tragic end."
