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"Fundamentalist" elements are said to be behind recent assaults and intimidation of faculty members at Ma’an’s fledgling Hussein Ben Talal University, sources said on Saturday.
Sheikhh Abdul Mun’em Abu Zant, detained three times last week for breaching the Sermons Law, once again defied a ban on his preaching activities and delivered a political sermon on Friday.
The lawyer defending 21 Hamas leaders and activists on Friday said a political settlement to the case of the detained members of the Islamic Resistance Movement was likely, more than a month after the authorities cracked down on the hard-line Palestinian movement.
His Majesty King Abdullah held talks on Tuesday with head of the Beirut-based Higher Islamic Shiite Council Sheikh Mohammed Mahdi Shamsuddine.
Head of the Beirut-based Higher Islamic Shiite Council Sheikh Mohammed Mehdi Shamsudeen arrived in Amman on Monday amidst reports of his possible mediation with the leadership in favor of the Islamic Resistance Movement.
A key witness in the case of the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, failed to appear before the State Security Court.
Sheikh Abdul Mun’em Abu Zant was released on bail on Sunday.
An [unidentified] key witness in the case of the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, is due to testify before the State Security Court prosecutor.
Sheikh Abdul Mun’em Abu Zant’s bail was accepted. His Friday sermons were banned five years ago. According his defense lawyer the sheikh told the prosecutor that the message of his sermons "had not been relayed accurately to the prosecution."
For the third time in less than a week, Sheikh Abdul Mun’em Abu Zant was detained by the authorities, but this time on charges related to his anti-government editorials as well as earlier charges of delivering political sermons, his lawyers said on Friday.

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