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Jordan - Latest Press Releases
Jordan: M. Al Uteibi, arbitrarily detained since December 2004 on hunger strike
JOR - News | 19 February 2008
Alkarama for Human Rights, February 18, 2008
Alkarama sent a new demand to Ms. Louise Arbour High Commissioner for Human Rights asking her to intervene with the Jordanian authorities in the case of Mr Al Uteibi, arrested on November 28, 2002 and held in detention, without due process of law despite a judgement of acquittal on Dec. 27, 2004. Alkarama had sent several communications (press releases of April 17, 2007 and June 7, 2007) to United Nations organs and the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention issued at its session of November 2007 a notice that the detention of Mr Al Uteibi is arbitrary (press release of January 15, 2008).
Jordan: the U.N considers the detention of Al-Maqdisi by Jordanian authorities as arbitrary.
JOR - News | 21 January 2008
Alkarama for Human Rights, 14 January 2008.
The U.N working group on arbitrary detentions came to a conclusion concerning the case of Mr. Issam Al-Otaibi, also known as "Abu Muhammad Almaqdisi". Alkarama organization has appealed on April 17 2007 to the working group to intervene urgently concerning this issue. Consequently, the working group declared during its last assembly held in Geneva at the end of Nov 2007 that the said detention is arbitrary, and Jordan is in violation of article 19 of the International Covenant on Political and Civil Rights ratified by the Jordanian Kingdom.