Democratic Palestine : 13 (ص 40)
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300 Political Prisoners in Jordan
The General Secretariat of the
Committee for the Defense of
Democratic .Freedoms in Jor-
dan, issued the following state-
ment: |
Dr. Suleiman Suwais, a member of
our general secretariat since its estab-
lishment in 1979, was_ arrested
November 24th by the Jordanian
authorities. He has a doctorate in social
sciences from the Sorbonne in Paris,
and works as a social researcher, jour-
nalist and writer. Dr. Suwais is amember
of the General Union of Palestinian Writ-
ers and Journalists. He also works in
Amnesty International, and other inter-
national as well as Arab organizations.
We call for immediate intervention to
secure the release of Dr. Suwais and all
political prisoners, and to put an end to
the broad campaign of repression
against unions, student, cultural and
youth organizations in Jordan.
According to recent information, a
number of political detainees have been
transferred from the Irbid district prison
to Al Zarga military prison (Ahmad al
Makhel and Mohammad Abu Marar).
Many others are still at the General Intel-
ligence Headquarters in Amman (Ali
Amer, Bassam Haddadin, Majid al
Muraidi, Mazin al Asaad...). We cannot
establish contact and we are concerned
about their health and about their being
subjected to torture.
We ask the International Red Cross
to send representatives to meet the
detainees, investigate their condition
and publicize the results.
The total number of political prison-
ers and detainees in Jordan has
increased remarkably to reach 300-at
the end of November 1985, i.e., there
has been a 40% increase in the number
since April 1985.
Below is a list of the citizens
detained in the recent campaign:
PNC member Ali Amer
GUPWJ members Bassam Haddadin,
Samih Khalid Salameh, Majid al Muraidi
and Suleiman Suwais
Member of the Jordanian Writers
Association Mazin al Asaad
Member of the Administrative Council of
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Palestinian Teachers Union; PNC
member Mohammad Abu Marar
Pharmacist Mohammad Suleiman
Saleh
Engineer Mohammad Nour al Beitar
Student movement activists: Amer
Karadsheh, Jamal Armouti, Emad
Hourani, tbrahim Nassir, Izzet al Hel-
bouni, Akrem Salameh, Ouda al Ja’afra,
Ayman Saleem al Ahmad, Jamal Shur-
bajee, Hussam Abu Ishtaih, Hazem al
Ashheb
Trade unionists: Osamah Hamzeh, Adel
Jadaliah, Ibrahim Matar.
Prisoners’ memorandum
92 political prisoners in Al Mahatta
Central Prison in Amman addressed a
memorandum to the spokesman of the
Committee for the Defense of Democra-
tic Freedoms and to members of the Jor-
danian parliament. They demanded:
A. Intervention to stop the ongoing
detention campaign, and investigation
of the unconstitutional repressive prac-
tices of the security institutions;
B. Intervention to stop house raids at
night, physical and psychological tor-
ture, and retaliatory measures against
the relatives of the detainees by dismis-
sing them from work or prohibiting them
from travel;
C. Release of administrative detainees
who have been held for 25-60 months
without trial (Yousef al Zaghari, Suphi al
Tellawi, Abed Rahim Awad, Yousef
Jalal, Atiah Jweed, Khaled Bwati, Adnan
Ajag, Ahmad al Khatib);
D. The cancellation of the capital
punishment sentence against citizen
Brak al Hadeed who has been under
arrest for 94 months;
E. Inclusion of political prisoners in the
general amnesty declared in June 1985;
F. End to the policy of sending political
prisoners to different Jordanian prisons.
Regathering them in one special prison,
provided with health care facilities and
the necessary humane conditions.
In the memorandum, the political
prisoners put forward the case of
Ibrahim Rihawi, who was tried 15 years
ago, and was twice included in general
amnesty, only to be rearrested without
trial. They also cited the case of twenty
other political prisoners who were
declared innocent by the emergency
court on grounds of lack of substantial
evidence. The military intelligence ser-
vice detained them again, in spite of the
court findings, thus violating the court
decree.
Also included among the prisoners’
demands was the cancellation of the
extraordinary laws and emergency reg-
ulations and special courts. They also
called for the implementation of the con-
stitution and putting into practice democ-
ratic freedoms, first and foremost the
freedom to form political parties and
organizations, and the release of all
political prisoners and detainees. ©@
Prisoners’ Call
Sixty-six political prisoners in Mahatta
Central Prison (Amman) issued the fol-
lowing appeal to international human
rights organizations, in solidarity with
the hunger strikes in occupied Pales-
tine.
We of the Jordanian national move-
ment and the Palestinian revolution in
Mahatta, declare our solidarity with our
comrades’ strike in the prisons of the
occupied territories. We affirm the legiti-
macy and justice of their demands for a
halt to the campaigns of collective exter-
mination and oppression to which they
are subjected in the jails of the occupa-
tion. We condemn these inhuman mea-
sures and appeal to all international
organizations to intervene immediately
to put a stop to the deportations, exter-
minations and forced emigration prac-
ticed against our Palestinian Arab mas-
ses in the occupied territories. We call
for support to the political detainees
strike, so that the can achieve their
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