{"id":635,"date":"2013-05-12T08:36:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-12T05:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/achrs.org\/english\/2013\/05\/12\/by-human-rights-watch-jordan-end-free-speech-prosecution\/"},"modified":"2023-04-11T14:43:50","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T11:43:50","slug":"by-human-rights-watch-jordan-end-free-speech-prosecution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/achrs.org\/english\/2013\/05\/12\/by-human-rights-watch-jordan-end-free-speech-prosecution\/","title":{"rendered":"By Human Rights Watch &#8216;Jordan: End Free Speech Prosecution&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hrw.org\/sites\/default\/files\/media\/images\/photographs\/Mwafaq%20Mahadin.jpg\" alt=\"&lt;p&gt;Mwafaq Mahadin&lt;\/p&gt;\" width=\"210\" height=\"168\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong><em>Court Twice Ruled in 2 Intellectuals\u2019 Favor <\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco; font-size: 8pt;\"><em>MAY 4, 2013<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt; font-family: terminal, monaco;\"><span style=\"color: #42210b; line-height: 22.75px;\">(Beirut) \u2013 Jordanian criminal justice authorities should immediately drop their three-year prosecution of two intellectuals and withdraw all charges against them. The charges, which include \u201cdisturbing relations with a foreign state\u201d and \u201cinciting racist strife,\u201d relate solely to the two men\u2019s peaceful exercise of their right to free speech.<\/span><br style=\"color: #42210b; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22.75px;\" \/><\/span><span style=\"color: #42210b; line-height: 22.75px; font-family: terminal, monaco; font-size: 8pt;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #42210b; line-height: 22.75px; font-family: terminal, monaco; font-size: 8pt;\">Prosecutors filed charges against Mwafaq Mahadin, 59, and Sufyan al-Tell, 74, in February 2010. The authorities have continued to pursue their prosecution despite two separate lower court rulings that cleared the defendants of all wrongdoing. The authorities should follow the rulings of the trial court and scrap the law under which the most serious charge was brought, Human Rights Watch said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt; font-family: terminal, monaco;\"><span style=\"color: #42210b; line-height: 22.75px;\">\u201c<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrw.org\/middle-eastn-africa\/jordan\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #3399cc; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22.75px;\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jordan<\/a><span style=\"color: #42210b; line-height: 22.75px;\">\u2019s claim to be making democratic reforms rings hollow while prosecutors hunt down public figures simply for criticizing the government\u2019s foreign policy,\u201d said&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrw.org\/bios\/sarah-leah-whitson\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #3399cc; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22.75px;\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sarah Leah Whitson<\/a><span style=\"color: #42210b; line-height: 22.75px;\">, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. \u201cTolerating political dissent is essential in any rights-respecting democracy.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt; font-family: terminal, monaco;\"><span style=\"color: #42210b; line-height: 22.75px;\">Court documents reveal that the only evidence cited by prosecutors against Mahadin and al-Tell through the entire court proceedings comes from satellite TV interviews with the two men in early 2010 in which they expressed their personal views about Jordanian foreign policy, including Jordan\u2019s participation in the Afghanistan conflict.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt; font-family: terminal, monaco;\"><span style=\"color: #42210b; line-height: 22.75px;\">The case against Mahadin, a well-known journalist and writer, and al-Tell, an environmental activist who represented Jordan for nine years on the Executive Council of the UN\u2019s Environmental Programme, began in February 2010. It was brought after both men were interviewed on television following the December 2009 attack on a CIA base in Afghanistan\u2019s Khost Province that killed a Jordanian intelligence official and seven CIA agents. The two were among a group of 87 Jordanian intellectuals who signed a public statement in early February entitled \u201cIt is not our war.\u201d<\/span><br style=\"color: #42210b; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22.75px;\" \/><\/span><span style=\"color: #42210b; line-height: 22.75px; font-family: terminal, monaco; font-size: 8pt;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #42210b; line-height: 22.75px; font-family: terminal, monaco; font-size: 8pt;\">During the interviews, on Al Jazeera and the Jordanian satellite TV channel Nourmina, both men expressed their personal opinions on US-Jordanian relations and Jordan\u2019s participation alongside the US in the conflict in Afghanistan. Court documents obtained by Human Rights Watch cite a number of comments as incriminating evidence, most of which concerned Jordan&#8217;s relations with the US.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 8pt; font-family: terminal, monaco;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: #42210b; line-height: 22.75px;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #42210b; line-height: 22.75px;\">The 2010 US State Department human rights report&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.state.gov\/j\/drl\/rls\/hrrpt\/2010\/nea\/154464.htm\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #3399cc; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22.75px;\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cited<\/a><span style=\"color: #42210b; line-height: 22.75px;\">&nbsp;the prosecution of al-Tell and Mahadin as a violation of freedom of speech and the press.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #42210b; line-height: 22.75px;\">Since early 2011, Jordanian leaders have repeatedly pledged to move the country toward a rights-respecting democracy, and world leaders have&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2013\/04\/26\/remarks-president-obama-and-his-majesty-king-abdullah-ii-bilateral-meeti\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #3399cc; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 22.75px;\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">praised<\/a><span style=\"color: #42210b; line-height: 22.75px;\">&nbsp;Jordan for its reform efforts, but the fact that the authorities can go to such lengths to mount criminal prosecutions against critics for their peaceful political speech shows what a long way Jordan still has to go, Human Rights Watch said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt; font-family: terminal, monaco;\"><span style=\"color: #42210b; line-height: 22.75px;\">Al-Tell told Human Rights Watch that prosecutors initiated charges against him and Mahadin after three retired military officers filed complaints against them in the days following the broadcasts. On February 4, 2010, the Office of the Public Prosecutor transferred the case to the State Security Court, which ordered the arrest of both men on February 10. Both were held in Amman\u2019s Juweida prison until February 15 then released on bail.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #42210b; line-height: 22.75px; font-family: terminal, monaco; font-size: 8pt;\">On April 6, 2010, al-Tell told Human Rights Watch, authorities moved the case back to the civilian courts due to changes to the press and publications law that removed these crimes from the jurisdiction of the State Security Court. On May 9, the Amman Public Prosecutor filed charges under the penal code and press code, including \u201cdisturbing relations with a foreign state\u201d and several minor charges: \u201cinciting racist strife,\u201d \u201cbroadcasting news that would undermine the prestige of the state,\u201d \u201cencouraging others by speech to overthrow the standing government,\u201d and \u201cvilifying an official body (the army).\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #42210b; line-height: 22.75px; font-family: terminal, monaco; font-size: 8pt;\">On May 22, the Amman Court of First Instance acquitted both defendants on all counts and held that three of the charges conflicted with constitutional free speech guarantees because they rested on the expression of personal opinions in television interviews. The court ruled penal code article 118.2, which criminalizes \u201cdisturbing relations with a foreign state,\u201d unconstitutional. It held that the article contains provisions that directly violate these guarantees, and that al-Tell\u2019s statements regarding Jordan\u2019s military did not meet the standards of criminal defamation as charged by the prosecutor \u2013 \u201cvilifying an official body\u201d. The court found that the prosecutor had offered no details to support the charge of \u201cinciting racist strife.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #42210b; line-height: 22.75px; font-family: terminal, monaco; font-size: 8pt;\">The Public Prosecutor appealed the judgment. On January 16, 2012, this appellate court rejected the lower court ruling, citing \u201cbad induction and lack of explanation,\u201d and returned the case to that court to \u201crepair\u201d its decision. On October 10, 2012, the Court of Cassation, Jordan\u2019s high court, refused to hear an appeal by the defendants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #42210b; line-height: 22.75px; font-family: terminal, monaco; font-size: 8pt;\">On February 18, 2013, Amman\u2019s Court of First Instance again cleared the defendants on all charges, making more explicit the legal reasoning behind its dismissal of each charge. The court said concerning the charge of \u201cdisturbing relations with a foreign state,\u201d for example, that the prosecution\u2019s case had not established any deterioration of relations or hostile acts as a result of the defendant\u2019s statements.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #42210b; line-height: 22.75px; font-family: terminal, monaco; font-size: 8pt;\">Nevertheless, the prosecutor filed a new appeal on March 5, contending that the lower court judgment was \u201ctainted by failures of reasoning and causation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #42210b; line-height: 22.75px; font-family: terminal, monaco; font-size: 8pt;\">Al-Tell told Human Rights Watch that the appellate court is reviewing the second lower court decision, but he does not know when it will issue its decision.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #42210b; line-height: 22.75px; font-family: terminal, monaco; font-size: 8pt;\">Freedom of expression is guaranteed under article 15 of Jordan\u2019s constitution, as cited by both lower court decisions. The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), to which Jordan is a state party, protects the right to freedom of expression, including \u201cfreedom to seek, receive, and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print, in the form of art, or through any other media of his choice\u201d (article 19).<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #42210b; line-height: 22.75px; font-family: terminal, monaco; font-size: 8pt;\">\u201cDespite two separate exonerations, prosecutors have dragged these men through endless hours of court hearings and appeals to punish them for voicing their opinions and possibly to deter other critics from speaking out,\u201d Whitson said. \u201cIf Jordan is serious about reform it needs to stop prosecuting people for peacefully saying what they think.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco; font-size: 8pt;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco; font-size: 8pt;\">Source:<\/span><em style=\"font-family: terminal, monaco; font-size: 8pt;\"> http:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2013\/05\/04\/jordan-end-free-speech-prosecution<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Court Twice Ruled in 2 Intellectuals\u2019 Favor MAY 4, 2013 (Beirut) \u2013 Jordanian criminal justice authorities should immediately drop their three-year prosecution of two intellectuals and withdraw all charges against them. 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