Articles for Jordan

Jordan: Prosecuted intellectual faces fictitious charges

On 17 September 2010, Issam Mohamed Tahar Al Bargaoui Al Uteibi was summoned by the Jordanian General Intelligence services and immediately arrested.

04 Jan 2011

Jordan: Video footage of Human Rights Committee's 100th session - Jordan's 4th Periodic Review

The following video footage was taken during the United Nations Human Rights Committee's 100th Session in the context of Jordan's 4th Periodic Review.

Please note: Some of the simultaneous translation may be missing, out of sink or of low sound quality due to technical difficulties.

28 Oct 2010

Jordan: Abd Al-Salam Ashraf Released

At noon yesterday, Monday 28 September 2010, Alkarama learned that Ashraf Muhammad Yusuf Abd Al-Salam was released by Jordanian intelligence services.

Mr Abd Al-Salam Ashraf was arrested on 28 June 2010 following a summons by the General Intelligence Services in Amman. He was immediately arrested, put in secret detention and tortured.

28 Sep 2010

Mr Issam Tahar Al Uteibi, a well-known Jordanian writer and theologian, was disappeared on 17 September 2010 by officers of the Jordanian Central Intelligence

22 Sep 2010

Jordan: Ashraf Abdulsalam Tortured while in Secret Detention

Ashraf Abdulsalam was arrested on 28 June 2010 after appearing for questioning at the Jordanian Intelligence services' headquarters in Amman. He was held incommunicado and reportedly tortured while in custody.

Alkarama submitted his case as an urgent appeal to the Special Rapporteur on Torture, requesting his intervention with the Jordanian authorities. Alkarama has requested that a full and impartial investigation into the accusations of torture allegedly carried out by Jordanian intelligence services - in an effort to identify the perpetrators and punish them.

27 Jul 2010

Jordan: Labor activist, Muhamed Al-Sunaid in provisional detention

Alkarama has just received information regarding the arbitrary arrest of a Jordanian citizen, Mohamed Al-Sunaid, Chairman of the Daily Workers Association in the Public Sector. He was arrested by the Jordanian security services for his peaceful protest in defense of the rights of Jordanian workers and trade union members.

Mohamed Sunaid was referred to the State Security Court on 11 May 2010, where the Prosecutor ordered his 14-day imprisonment pending investigation.

18 May 2010

Jordan: Attack on citizen Said Mahmoud Talafaha

During the early hours of Monday 1 March 2010, criminal investigators and security personnel from Aydoun, Irbid governorate, raided Said Mahmoud Talafaha's home, where he lives with his wife and infant daughter. During the brutal raid, both him and his daughter were injured - the two are now in hospital.

Following the prolonged house inspection, Said Talafaha was taken to a security centre where criminal investigators and General Security officers tied him down and lambasted his legs and arms with work tools.

05 Mar 2010

Jordan: Four Jordanians arbitrarily arrested by the secret service

A reliable source has informed Alkarama that, on the night of 7 November 2009, Jordanian authorities arbitrarily detained Yousef Anwar Abu Sharby and Jamal al-Sarawi in al-Zaraqa province without presenting a warrant for their arrest - they were later taken to the Intelligence services' prison.

After tearing down his door, forces from the Jordanian intelligence services raided Yousef Abu Anwar Sharby's home - his wife rushed to the bedroom to put on her clothes but intelligence agents quickly sto

13 Nov 2009

Jordan: Concerns persist despite Jordan's commitments to the HRC

On 11 June 2009, the Human Rights Council (HRC) adopted the report of the Working Group on Jordan which was discussed at the fourth session of the Universal Periodic Review (2-13 February 2009). The comments of State representatives present at this meeting and their recommendations are reflected in this document.

26 Jun 2009

Jordan: M. Issam Al Uteibi (Sheikh AlMaqdisi) liberated on March 12, 2008

AlKarama for Human Rights, March 13, 2008

AlKarama has learned that Mr. Issam Al-Uteibi has been released on March 12, 2008. Arrested on Nov. 28, 2002, he was kept in detention without legal process and despite a judgement of acquittal on 27 December 2004. To protest against this situation, he started a hunger strike on February 4, 2008. The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, sought by AlKarama had issued an opinion in which he considered his detention as being arbitrary.

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13 Mar 2008