On 22 January 2015, Alkarama sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association regarding the arrest and incommunicado detention of Bassem Al Rawabedah and Thabet Assaf. The two men were arrested by the Jordanian Preventive Security Services for having organised a peaceful demonstration against the French journal Charlie Hebdo's cartoons on 16 January 2015.

Amer Jamil Jubran is a human rights defender focusing mostly on Palestine. He is arbitrarily detained since May 2014, by the Jordanian authorities. It is not the first time that his political activism leads him to be questioned by the Intelligence services.

Alkarama expresses its concern over the new anti-terrorism law that was adopted by the Jordanian government on 1st June 2014. The amendments to the initial law n°55 of 2006 are not in line with international Human Rights standards and treaties ratified by the Hashemite Kingdom.

Jordan missed the opportunity to demonstrate political will to promote and protect human rights at the adoption of the report of its second Universal Periodic Review (UPR) by the UN Human Rights Council today. We recall that due to the Jordanian authorities' failure to implement many of the recommendations it accepted during its first review in 2009, a number of recommendations were repeated. And the authorities failed to accept any additional recommendations today.