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Geneva – The Jordanian security services' impeding of a Teachers' Syndicate (JTS) event this afternoon in the Karak governorate of southern Jordan is a confiscation of the right to express opinion and peaceful assembly, Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights . ....
Published date: 11 January 2021 13:58 UTC | Last update: 2 months 1 week ago In the latest round of tensions, Jordanian security forces on Sunday broke up a congregation of angry teachers who had gathered in the capital Amman to protest the forced early retirement of 62 teachers, with union members threatening more action. Despite tight security and the large contingent of Jordanian police, a big group of teachers managed to gather in the vicinity of the Jordanian parliament. Naser Nawasreh, the deputy head of the teachers’ union, and other teachers were arrested and later released. We will chain ourselves and go voluntarily to prisons from where we will announce the biggest hunger strike for all teachers in Jordan ....
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 follo ....