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Platform activists interacted with the Jordanian Parliament’s approval of the draft general amnesty law for the year 2024, as proposed by the government without any amendments to it, in the first discussion session that included parliamentary demands for expansion of the draft law.
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According to reports, the general amnesty bill included the release of 7,355 inmates in correctional centers; Of them, approximately 4,200 were charged with various misdemeanors, and about 2,600 were charged with drug-related misdemeanors.
The law's approval was met with comments from some political forces. Representative Saleh Al-Armouti, head of the Islamic Parliamentary Reform Bloc, expressed comments on the law.
Representative Al-Armouti - who left the session in protest at the interruption of his speech - said that the general amnesty law that was approved does not include crimes and acts falling under the heading of treason and crimes against international law, as well as those related to internal state security, sedition, terrorism, undermining the political system of government, and crimes that undermine national unity.
The 3-27-2024 episode of the “Shabakat” program monitored the most prominent comments that interacted on the platforms regarding the Jordanian House of Representatives’ approval of the draft general amnesty law for the year 2024, and the activists’ tweets varied between those who called for the law to include prisoners of conscience, and others who agreed to approve the law as it is. .
Activist Qais tweeted his astonishment at the position of the Islamic Parliamentary Reform Bloc, asking: “How can a parliamentary bloc object to a general amnesty because it will not include state security crimes and at the same time demand that those who smuggle weapons to the resistance be pardoned?”
For her part, the account owner, Samah, asked: “Why are criminals released and not prisoners of conscience and opponents?” She answered, explaining her point of view: “Because the criminal does not fight ideas.”
While tweeter Wadih believed that approving the law is logical because “a general amnesty will be applied to people who were sentenced due to their circumstances and committed misdemeanors,” explaining to those who have a position on the law that “serious crimes will certainly not be pardoned, why are you upset?”
As for activist Nada, she thought it would be better if the law included other groups and tweeted: “I was hoping that at least some of the detainees protesting in support of Palestine would be released,” because “some of them are being tried for tweets and publications.”
Human Rights Watch said in a report that the Jordanian authorities arrested and harassed dozens of Jordanians who participated in pro-Palestine protests across the country or online since last October, and some of them were charged under the Cybercrimes Law.