Mu’tasim Bishtawi.
Freihat confirmed at a later time that the court had already agreed to release the JTS Council members on bail, after they had been arrested upon the issuance of the initial ruling, and he affirmed that the appeal would be completed for the whole case within ten days.
On 3 January 2021, hundreds of teachers held a sit-in in front of the Parliament in the capital, Amman, demanding the annulment of the decision to dissolve the Syndicate Council and a stop to forcing activist teachers into retirement.
The Jordanian judiciary had decided, on 25 July 2020, to suspend the operations of JTS and closed its branches in all twelve governorates for a period of two years. In addition, the General Prosecutor of Amman, Hassan Al-Abdallat, issued a decision ceasing the work of the members of the JTS Council, the members of the Central Committee and the branch bodies, and ordered the formation of a temporary governmental committee to manage the JTS. This was followed by the arrest of all members of the Syndicate Council and many JTS leaders (including 13 members, and 15 detainees from among heads of branches, secretaries, and members of a Central Committee of the Syndicate), who were later released.