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Jalwa law in Jordan sends hundreds into domestic exile
The Jordanian custom of banishing the families of suspected criminals is intended to prevent revenge. It s a collective punishment that even affects distant cousins.
On the street in Jordan s capital, Amman: The tribal tradition of jalwa expels families from their homes and harms the innocent, critics say
Students at Jordan s Tafila Technical University have initiated a campaign to draw further attention to the potential harm caused by jalwa, an informal tradition-based law that has caused entire extended families to be uprooted from their homes for years.     
Translated roughly to banishment or exile, jalwa often requires that people accused of grave crimes, and their families, leave the area where the act was committed in order to avoid cycles of reprisal. Banishment may apply to all descendants of a common male ancestor going back as far as five generations. That includes hundred ....

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