Ammon News - AMMONNEWS - Opposition parties announced staging a rally on Saturday in front of the Prime Ministry headquarters in protest of the detention of 'opinion' political activists, a statement said.

Members of coordinating opposition parties committee will visit the detainees to solidarity with the 20 prisoners who were arrested about month ago.

Twenty detainees - all members of pro-reform groups - have been arrested across the country between 15 July and 4 October, either during or following peaceful protests throughout the country, calling for legal and economic reforms, greater political freedoms, and an end to corruption.

The 20 men await trial before the country’s State Security Court, a special court whose procedures fail to meet international fair trial standards, for their activities in a number of pro-reform groups.

Charges against them include “carrying out acts that undermine the political system in the Kingdom”; participating in an “illegitimate gathering”; “insulting the King”; spreading news that aims at “weakening national sentiment or inciting sectarian and racial strife”; and “attempting to change the state’s constitution” - a charge which is punishable by death.