Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Jordan allowed for Human Rights to visit the prison intelligence

The Jordanian government said that a delegation from Human Rights Watch American, "Human Rights Watch", will visit the prison intelligence in the coming weeks, after criticism by the Organization of the detention conditions in the prison's most powerful security apparatus in the country. And government spokesman Nasser quality that the visit will take place within the framework of contacts taking place between the government and human rights organizations, revealed that the visit "is not the first," and added "there is openness and transparency and permanent channels of communication between Human Rights Watch and the security agencies and was the American representative of the organization in the Middle East and North Africa Fadi judge, and the researcher Christophe Wilkie met Intelligence Director General Mohamed Golden last year after the organization issued a report bear heavily on what he described as "dubious arrests" in the General Intelligence Service in this context said that the quality of Jordan deal with the international human rights organizations " in all frankness and transparency ", pointing out that his country is keen to arrange visits by human rights organizations for prisons," responds to queries from these organizations if there was a reason for that and stressed that the prisons in Jordan subject to the laws and regulations apply international standards in this regard and report criticized the Human Rights Watch General last existence of a number of detainees in the prison intelligence for years without trial, also criticized what he described as a "problem the rule of law in Jordan and the mainstream Salafi ideology theoretician Essam Al-Otaibi, alias Abu Mohammed Conclave, the most famous prisoners in the general intelligence, where authorities detained there since in July 2005 following an interview with Al-Jazeera says his family that his health had deteriorated recently after going on hunger strike result of the continued detention without trial and conversion of a number of family members Conclave that the security authorities requested the Conclave to sign a document confirming his retreating systematize intellectual exchange for the release it criticized the President of the Arab Organization for Human Rights Hani Aldahlah allowed to inspect the prison, the American intelligence, and rejected similar requests by his organization and local organizations to him. A Aldahlah the presentation by the Human Rights Watch organization for the delegate attendance at the scheduled visit to the prison intelligence, and added, "officials intelligence refused a delegate of the Organization. " Aldahlah said that the Human Rights Watch received special treatment as the Organization of American calculated Jordanian government account to the government, according to the recipe. Aldahlah considered that the security authorities would not allow the Organization of American access to the true reality of prison intelligence, and added: I think it will be arranging the visit will allow visitors access to the true reality in prison was the decision of the Commission on Human Rights at the United Nations Manfred Novak in last year sharply criticized the Jordanian authorities, and spoke in a report of the International Human Rights Committee of the existence of "torture" in Jordanian prisons, is the question the prison in Jordan, one of the issues that cause headache for successive governments and, most recently, the families of the detainees complained of the increasing volume of Islamist attacks on policemen detained in prison drive (100 km south of the capital Amman), but the security authorities deny the existence of any abuses in prisons

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