She has been involved in her community for years, holding positions such as President of the Atlantic Community Newspapers Association and Chair of the Earth Day Challenge Committee. “The charges filed against activists ranged from insulting the king (‘lengthening the tongue against the king’) to ‘undermining the political regime’ and ‘online slander’,” the HRW said.

Elected MLA for Bass November 2018.

Jordan charges former MP with 'insulting the king, queen' Family of Ahmad Oweidi al-Abbadi, 75, calls for his release following his arrest last week in the capital, Amman. His son, Nomayy al-Abbadi, told Al Jazeera from Germany, where he works as a doctor, that his father suffers from chronic heart disease and diabetes and called on international human rights groups to pressure the government to release him. In a 2019 report, Human Rights Watch said the Jordanian government had “detained over 30 political and anti-corruption activists and filed charges against some that violated the right to free expression.

“assaulting the king and the queen”, according to his family and lawyer. Join Facebook to connect with Jordan MP and others you may know.

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It also considers it illegal to criticise foreign governments. Prior to entering politics, Minister Jordan was a development officer for the Health Services Foundation in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, where she spent eight years as part of a team raising millions of dollars for health care in the region. “His arrest is intended as a deterrent move against other activists and scare other Jordanians from taking to the streets in protest” against the government’s “economic failure” in the aftermath of the coronavirus lockdown and the failure to end “endemic corruption” within the political system, he said. Ms Jordan Crugnale.

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Abandoned and derelict vessels have been a major issue and concern in coastal communities, and Minister Jordan’s work on this issue helped lead to the development of the Oceans Protection Plan. In the past, he has also directed his criticism towards Jordan’s queen, because of her Palestinian origins, and questioned the legitimacy of the royal family.

Most of those detained were linked to a loose coalition of political activists across the country known as the hirak (movement).”.

Featured. In a statement issued on June 3, al-Abbadi’s family called for his immediate release and decried the arrest as “illegal” and called it a “kidnapping”.

Family of Ahmad Oweidi al-Abbadi, 75, calls for his release following his arrest last week in the capital, Amman. Jordan MP Fires Kalashnikov In Parliament.