Democratic Palestine : 25 (ص 27)
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- Democratic Palestine : 25 (ص 27)
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(28%). Karak province, on the other
hand, contains 4% of the population
but is allotted 12% of the seats. This
distribution is intended to deprive the
democratic and nationalist forces of the
power they have in urbanized areas,
while giving more weight to backward
forces
No date has yet been set for elections,
but they will be held under the martial
and emergency laws enacted in 1967, on
the pretext that Jordan is in a state of
war with ‘Israel’, whereas these laws
are actually used to suppress opposition
to the regime. The Jordanian
authorities have already started
preparing a ‘democratic, honest at-
mosphere’ for the elections, waging a
broad campaign of arrests against
patriotic and progressive figures. The
latest preparation was closing down the
offices of the well-known Jordanian
Writers’ League.
TOWARDS FREE AND
DEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS
Given the fact that the Jordanian
regime sees the upcoming elections as
an opportunity to impose its ‘represen-
tation’ of the Palestinian people, the
PLO Executive Committee issued a
condemnation of holding elections in
the Palestinian camps in Jordan and for
the West Bank. Meeting in Tunis in
May, the PLO Executive Committee
termed such elections an infringement
on the PLO’s sole right of representa-
tion. All the organizations of the
Palestinian revolution have determined
to boycott the elections in the camps.
The other aspect of the planned elec-
tions is aimed against the Jordanian
masses and democratic forces. It is an
attempt to falsify the masses’ will. In
the face of this, the patriotic and pro-
gressive forces in Jordan should unite
to make these elections a mass political
struggle against the reactionary election
law and the regime’s policies. Entering
this battle under the current conditions
requires the broadest popular and na-
tionalist work to end the state of
emergency and martial law. It requires
unified efforts by the masses in Jordan,
Palestinian as well as Jordanian, to
struggle for democracy while
safeguarding the PLO and the Palesti-
nian people’s legitimate rights. ®
Committee for Democratic Freedoms:
Release Abu Mashour!
On May 17th, the Committee for the
Defense of Democratic Freedoms in
Jordan issued a communique to the ef-
fect that the prominent militant Ahmed
Saleh Musleh, otherwise known as Abu
Mashour, is still being detained by the
Jordanian General Intelligence in
Amman, two months after his arrest on
March 17th. Abu Mashour is a member
of the Palestinian National Council.
This is not the first time Abu
Mashour has been jailed. In 1967, he
was arrested by the Zionist occupation
authorities and imprisoned for nine
years. After his release, he was
deported to Jordan in 1976. In April
1980, the Jordanian authorities arrested
him and detained him until July 18,
1980. He was rearrested on November
17, 1981, and detained until late 1983.
All told, Abu Mashour has spent about
eleven years of his life in Zionist and
Jordanian prisons. Still, in March, the
Jordanian regime arrested him for the
third time, without specifying charges.
He remains in jail, deprived of the
minimal human conditions.
The Committee for the Defense of
Democratic Freedoms in Jordan
strongly condemns Abu Mashour’s
detention. It calls on all Arab and in-
ternational humanitarian and juridical
Organizations to work for his im-
mediate release, and for the release of
all political prisoners in Jordan. These
organizations are called on to work to
put a stop to the overall human rights
violations of the Jordanian authorities. - هو جزء من
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