Jordan drops Abu Audeh case
The official Jordanian news agency, Petra, anounced today that,
- A decision was taken on Sunday not to try Adnan Abu Odeh.
According to the decision issued by the State Security Prosecutor General the law case against Abu Odeh will be shelved.
This is excellent news. For more details about the prominent Jordanian citizen Adnan Abu Audeh (also transliterated as Abu-Odeh) and this now dead accusation, see this recent JWN post.
Al Jazeera notes that after he was first informed, Thursday, of the possibility of charges being brought against him Abu Audeh, "told reporters that he believed in 'the fairness of Jordanian justice'." Many others acused and detained under the kingdom's draconian state security laws now also need to see this fairness in action.
I hope, too, that Jordan's rulers will not be taking any other actions to squelch or deter cordial and non-confrontational open discussion of the serious questions Abu Audeh has raised about discrimination against certain whole groups of Jordanian citizens and the need to build a more inclusive national community there.