Protesters Condemn Israeli Treatment of Jordanian Prisoners
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Jordanian citizens responded to a call from prisoner committees in Jordan to hold a protest near the Israeli regime’s embassy in Amman on Friday.
The protesters were demonstrating against the regime's treatment of Jordanian prisoners in Israeli prisons, Shehab News reported.
Shahin Murai, the brother of Jordanian prisoner Munir Murai, who was sentenced to five life sentences, stated that "If this suffocation and these practices by the Israeli authorities continue, the prisoners will announce a comprehensive hunger strike at the beginning of the blessed month of Ramadan."
The prisoner committees in Jordan issued a call to action, stating: "The demonstration comes in protest against the monstrous practices against prisoners in the occupation's prisons, including the death penalty law for prisoners."
During the protest, the demonstrators raised slogans calling on the prisoners to persevere and denounced a proposed law in the Knesset that calls for the execution of those who carry out operations that result in the killing of Israelis.
On January 24, the families of Jordanian prisoners in the Israeli regime’s prisons delivered a letter from Jordanian prisoners to the Arab country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, demanding that the Jordanian government take the necessary steps to prevent the approval of the "death penalty for prisoners" law and called for the "Jordanian prisoner file" to be a top priority for the Jordanian government.
The Prisoners' Authority announced in December 2022 that the occupation authorities are still holding 17 people in its prisons, some of whom hold Jordanian nationality, while others have Palestinian roots and have Jordanian national numbers.
