Jimmy's Corner

A Jordanian association concerned with human rights in Jordan announced in a report last Thursday that one third of the total number of prisoners in Jordan's jails are imprisoned without any official accusations or trials. In 1953 a law was issued in Jordan that gives the police enough authority to arrest anyone for at least 24 hours without charges. This law is now the reason why 2882 prisoners are kept in jails without any official charges. Addtionally, in 2004 there was another report by the National Human Rights Center in Jordan that announced that most of Jordanian prisoners are subjected to torturing. It also announced that an Islamist was beaten to death by warders in jail.

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