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Participants at a two-day conference urging the cancellation of legislation regarding crimes of honor said the focus in activists’ battle should also include Article 98 of the Jordanian Penal Code, not only Article 340.
The National Jordanian Campaign Committee to Eliminate the so-called "Crimes of Honor" has made some strides in its bid to increase public awareness of the problem but is nowhere near where it should be.
The National Jordanian Campaign Committee to Eliminate the so-called "Crimes of Honor," said on Saturday it has collected around 8,000 signatures in the first month of the nationwide campaign calling for the cancellation of Article 340 of the Jordanian Penal Code which gives those who kill in the...
The Muslim Brotherhood is proposing a compromise to end the issue of the detention of Hamas leaders and the closure of the movement’s offices in Amman.
Deputy Prime Minister Ayman Majali on Sunday said Jordan has not yet responded to a letter from the Hamas leadership in Gaza requesting that a mutual solution be found to avoid the trial of Hamas members arrested in a recent government crackdown on the group.
Former Islamist deputy Abdul Munem Abu Zant was briefly detained on Tuesday for violating the Sermons Law, an official at the Ministry of Interior said.
The chief defense attorney for two arrested Hamas leaders and their associates said he expects the State Security Court prosecutor general to rule on a request to release the Hamas leaders on bail "very soon."
The chief defense lawyer for two Hamas leaders detained on charges of belonging to an illegal group said on Friday he will seek his clients’ release on bail on Saturday.
Jordan was forced to launch an unprecedented crackdown on the Palestinian militant group Hamas after it found "proof" of a threat to its security as serious as the bloody 1970 Black September clashes with Palestinian radicals, a top official said Thursday.
Lawmakers gave mixed reactions to detention of two leaders of the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas. Some deputies supported the government in its claim that Hamas was working against the national interests of Jordan, while others said the government’s escalation of the two-week discord was...

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