Ammon News - AMMONNEWS - The head of the Arab Organization for Human Rights (AOHR) in Amman, confirmed on Wednesday that 1300 Jordanians were being held in prisons across the World.

Lawyer Abd Al Karim Shraideh, who chairs the Organization's office in Jordan told Ammon News that 367 of the total were jailed for political reasons, while the rest for criminal reasons.

According to AOHR there is (252) Jordanian prisoners in Syria, (52) in Iraq, (25) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,(27)in Israeli jails, (5)in USA, and (6) in Iran.

He said the governments of Jordan were "not serious" to follow the case of prisoners and the organization sent a letter to the Royal Court on the name of all prisoners across the World to intervene to release them but the request had gone unanswered.


" we filed many complaints from Jordanians against the Foreign Ministry and the ministry's way of handling such cases". he added.