Jordanian writer shot outside court before trial over cartoon

AMMAN A gunman shot dead Jordanian writer Nahed Hattar on Sunday outside the court where he was to stand trial on charges of contempt of religion after sharing on social media a caricature seen as insulting Islam. The gunman was arrested at the scene. A security source said he was a 39-year-old Muslim preacher in a mosque in the capital. Hattar, a Christian and an anti-Islamist activist, was arrested last month after sharing on social media the controversial caricature. page 13