Rula amin biography meaning

A journalist has been detained in Jordan after she refused to give up her daughter following the overturning of a custody decision in her favour.

A still shows Rula Amin, a former CNN correspondent based in Jordan (YouTube screengrab) 

Rula Amin, an Al-Jazeera correspondent who has previously worked with CNN, won a year-long court battle against her former husband in late 2014 for custody of their five-year-old daughter.

However, she was picked up by Jordanian police on Monday after a sharia court reversed the decision earlier this month.

Amin refused to give the child up, reportedly telling police that they had “no legal reason” to take the child back.

Amin’s arrest came a day after she was informed of a seven-day deadline in which to give up the child.

She has now been transferred to a women’s prison in the capital Amman, though no formal charges have as yet been announced.

Jordanian news site Tasweer reported that she wi