On Sunday, the Jordanian State Security Court charged with "terrorism" for a Jordanian who stabbed eight people, including three Mexican tourists and a Swiss tourist, last November in the ancient city of Jerash, in the north of the Kingdom.
The prosecutor of the court, Mustafa Abu Ruwais, 22, accused of "carrying out terrorist acts", "the conspiracy with the intention of carrying out terrorist acts", "promoting the ideas of a terrorist group" and "trying to join an armed group and terrorist organizations".
Abu Ruwais, a Jordanian of Palestinian origin, stabbed four Jordanians on November 6, including a tourist guide, two security men, three Mexican tourists, and a Swiss tourist in Jerash, 51 km north of Amman. He may be sentenced, if convicted, to 20 years' imprisonment.
The indictment stated that Abu Ruwais “embraced the ideology of the ISIS terrorist gang” and was intending to join the organization and was in contact with “Abu Zainab”, one of the organization’s members in Syria, who “gave him a fatwa permitting the targeting of foreigners in any region of the world.”
And she continued, “After that, Mustafa decided to carry out a terrorist operation on the Jordanian scene, in support of the terrorist organization ISIS, and to avenge the killing of its leader, Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, which coincided with that period.”
The court also directed charges of "terrorism" to two other suspects, "Osama" and "Khaled," who are also Jordanian, of Palestinian origin, who are both 22 years old. They had a friendship with the first accused, carrying "ideas of a terrorist group" and they were all meeting on a farm and promoting the ideas of "ISIS".
The president of the court decided to postpone the trial session until next Sunday to hear the prosecution witnesses.
Mustafa Abu Ruwais, a resident of the "Souf" Palestinian refugee camp in Jerash, who is home to about 20 thousand refugees, near the ruins of Jerash, on November 6 stabbed eight people, including four tourists, and was arrested immediately.