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Alkarama submitted a communication to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) on 18 March 2025 concerning Mahmoud Aletewi, a Jordanian student who was arrested by the General Intelligence Services in Zarqa on 26 February 2024 and accused of visiting websites considered by the authorities to be 'non-compliant'.  

On the evening of Tuesday, April 9, 2024, Jordanian security forces arrested the Syrian youth, Atiya Mohammed Salim, and his colleague Abdulrahman Al-Sheikh as they were on their way to film a solidarity demonstration with the Palestinian people against the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip. This incident occurred in the Rabia area of Amman on the eve of Eid al-Fitr because they were students studying at the Faculty of Media at Yarmouk University in Jordan. Atiya was taken to the Shmeisani Security Center. 

Alkarama strongly condemns Jordan's extradition of Emirati businessman Khalaf Abdulrahman Al Rumaithi – sentenced in absentia to 15 years in prison in connection with the so-called "UAE 94" case by the Abu Dhabi authorities - despite the risk of torture and ill-treatment and in flagrant violation of the Convention against Torture to which Jordan is a party. 

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Our concerns
  • Violations committed by the Directorate General of Intelligence in the context of the fight against terrorism, including the practice of torture and incommunicado detention;
  • Unfair trials before the State Security Court and admission of confessions extracted under torture as evidence;
  • Reprisals against journalists and other dissident voices, in particular through judicial harassment.

 

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