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Jordanian media reported on Saturday April 3, 2021, that Prince Hamzah, former Crown Prince of Jordan and King Abdullah’s half-brother, is not in detention.
The Jordanian news agency (Petra) said Jordanian security forces had arrested a former adviser to King Abdullah, a member of the royal family and others for “security” reasons.
The agency added that authorities arrested several personalities, including Bassem Awadallah, who was educated in the United States and is a longtime confidant of the Jordanian monarch and later became Finance Minister, and Sheriff Hassan bin Zaid, a family member. real. . The agency did not provide the names of other characters or further details.
High officials or members of the royal family are rarely arrested in Jordan.
Awadallah has long faced stiff resistance from the old guard and an entrenched bureaucracy that has benefited for years from government privileges. Awadallah was a major contributor to economic reforms before his resignation as head of the royal court in 2008.
Jordan’s powerful intelligence agency, with pervasive influence on public life, has played a larger public role since the introduction of emergency laws at the start of the Coronavirus pandemic last year. Civic groups say these laws violate civil and political rights.
