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Ammon News - By Amal Ghabayen

AMMONNEWS - Former Jordanian detainee in Israeli prisons Sultan al-Ajluni has rejected a call from Amnesty International to file a case against Jordan for assault inside an Amman provincial governorate building last Thursday. 

Al-Ajluni told Ammon News that he refuses because he has confidence in the Jordanian judiciary and did not want outside agencies to intervene and indicated that he was going to sue those responsible for breaking up the weekend's peaceful protest at the Interior Ministry Circle by force, and those who issued the order to beat him inside the governorate building.

He added that he will not file law suits against security members who actually beat him since they were "merely following orders." 

Speaking about Friday's protests, al-Ajluni said that he had expected the gendarmerie to "intervene to stop the shower of rocks being thrown at the protestors, not to beat them!"

He noted that protesters initially greeted the gendarmerie, but were taken aback when they began attacking protestors 'furiously' and helping those attacking the protestors.

Security forces later took Al Ajluni off the protest car he was standing on, beat him and dragged him to the governorate building on the orders of an individual wearing civilian clothing, he claimed. (More below)



According to al-Ajluni, when they reached the building members of the PSD beat him, and he was then taken inside the building where the beating continued, along with curses and insults offending his honour, until he lost consciousness. 

During the 'boxing fest' as al-Ajluni referred to it, there was also another man there whose identity he did not know. al-Ajluni indicated that a member of the preventative security personnel requested the others to stop attacking him "lest he die at their hands."

He called for an ambulance, and when it did not appear, they took him to Prince Faisal hospital in a security vehicle for treatment.

Despite the illegal treatment, Al Ajluni stressed his confidence in the Jordanian judicial system to guarantee his justice.

Al Ajluni had been detained for 17 years in Israeli prisons, and was released to Jordanian custody to spend his 18th year in a Jordanian prison. He is dubbed "Dean of Jordanian Detainees in Israel."

* By Jessica Watkins for Ammon News English