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Rights group accuses Jordan | Rights group accuses Jordan |
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A prominent human rights group has accused Jordan's intelligence agency of making arbitrary arrests and abusing political dissidents. | |
In a new report, Human Rights Watch said some suspects had been held for long periods without being charged and are denied access to lawyers. | |
It called on Washington to raise the issue with Jordan's King Abdullah II during his visit to the US this week. | |
The Jordanian authorities have denied the allegations. | The Jordanian authorities have denied the allegations. |
Jordan's main intelligence service, the General Intelligence Department (GID), has carried out "waves" of arrests of political dissidents, most of them Islamists, since 2000, according to the report. | |
HRW's Christoph Wilcke added that many suspects were held in solitary confinement when first arrested and there were "serious allegations of ill-treatment and sometimes torture". | |
The allegations are based on the cases of 16 people arrested by the GID. | |
Of the 16 people investigated in the report, 13 have been released without trial, two are still being held without formal charge and one has been acquitted. |
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