Jordan

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Jordan’s version of a trial of the century gets under way this week when a relative of King Abdullah II and a former chief of the royal court are ushered into the defendants’ cage at the state security court to face charges of sedition and incitement.

They are accused of conspiring with a senior royal — Prince Hamzah, a half-brother of the king — to foment unrest against the monarch while soliciting foreign help.

16 June 2021; MEMO: A written statement by the former Chief of Jordan's Royal Court, Basim Awadallah, has claimed that Prince Hamzah Bin Hussein was critical of his brother, King Abdullah II, the local media reported on Tuesday. Awadallah's statement was leaked to the media.

AMMAN, Jun 11 (NNN-PETRA) – The World Bank Group and other partners will provide a package of over 1.1 billion U.S. dollars, in financial support to Jordan in the 2021 fiscal year, the Jordanian Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation said yesterday.

The package includes support to Jordan’s COVID-19 Emergency Response Project, which aims to vaccinate 40 percent of eligible population, to achieve the target of vaccinating 75 percent of Jordanian citizens, the ministry said in a statement.

11 June 2021; MEMO: Jordan and Hamas may be on the verge of reconciliation in the ongoing confrontation with the occupation state of Israel, Anadolu has reported. This was evident during the latest Israeli assault on Palestinians in Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, with Amman expressing its keenness to defend the people of occupied Palestine.

08 June 2021; MEMO: Jordanian truck drivers staged a protest in Amman yesterday against a Saudi ban on their entry to the kingdom after a decision to ban older vehicles from entering Saudi came into effect.

03 June 2021; MEMO: The Public Prosecutor of the State Security Court in Jordan yesterday issued an indictment against Bassem Ibrahim Awadallah, former head of the royal court, and Sharif Hassan Bin Zaid, a member of the royal family, over their involvement in a so- called "sedition case", Jordan News Agency (Petra) reported.

The agency said the case file had been sent to the Public Prosecutor of the State Security Court for action.

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Jordan has referred the cases of two former senior officials accused of taking part in a foreign plot linked to the half-brother of King Abdullah II to a national security court, the official Petra news agency reported Tuesday.

Bassem Awadallah, a former Cabinet minister and one-time head of the royal court, and Sharif Hassan bin Zaid, a member of the royal family, were swept up in a wave of arrests in April. Prince Hamzah, a former crown prince, was placed under a form of house arrest.

25 May 2021; MEMO: Jordan's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said yesterday that cessation of Israeli violations and finding the required political means to support Palestinians and meet their legitimate rights is important to achieving peace, news agencies reported.

19 May 2021; MEMO: Jordan King Abdullah II said Israel's repeated provocative practices against the Palestinian people have led to the ongoing escalation and pushed the region towards more tension, the Royal Hashemite Court said in a statement.

AMMAN, May 18 (Xinhua) -- Jordan and Greece on Tuesday agreed that there is no alternative to the two-state solution as the only way to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The two sides reached the agreement at a meeting between Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi with his visiting Greek counterpart Nikos Dendias.

Safadi held Israel responsible for the recent escalation in the occupied Palestinian territories, which has pushed the whole region toward more tension and violence, according to a statement issued by the Jordanian Foreign Ministry.