Jordan releases 16 tied to foreign-backed sedition plot Nabih Bulos © (Yousef Allan / Royal Hashemite Court) Jordan s King Abdullah II attends the inauguration of the 19th Parliament s non-ordinary session in Amman in December. (Yousef Allan / Associated Press)
Weeks after their arrest, more than a dozen alleged plotters were freed over their involvement in a royal feud between King Abdullah II and his half-brother and onetime crown prince, Prince Hamzah.
The 16 detainees, many of them members of Prince Hamzah’s staff or his circle of friends from Jordan’s powerful tribes, had been captured in a blitz operation involving multiple strike teams dispatched across the kingdom. They were set to be let go after the king had urged the government to “look into the proper mechanism to have those who were were misled into following the sedition” to be returned to their families, according to a statement released by the palace on Thursday.
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