#Jordan authorities arrested Sharif Hassen bin Zaid, former royal court chief/economic power-broker Bassem Awadallah and “others” for security reasons in dramatic raids across the capital- and in news, taken down, a senior prince and his staff

petra.gov.jo/Include/InnerP…
According to reports and claims by relatives of staff, that senior prince is former #Jordan Crown Prince Hamzah- who some claim is currently under house arrest.

The widespread arrests were dramatic in the amount of military, police and mukhabarat forces and house raids.
*If* true, a senior royal detained or interrogated is unprecedented in modern #Jorodan, or really in any of #Jordan history.

Royal family is known for sticking together in tough times.
What is breathtaking is the wide scope of people arrested, if what family members and eyewitnesses say is true.

An alleged wide net of people arrested from different backgrounds and positions- from influential to mid-level 'clerks'
Multiple #Jordan official sources are denying to multiple outlets reports about Prince Hamzah being arrested.
But even if a senior royal has not been arrested/detained/interrogated- authorities *have* arrested several large figures with extensive ties both in #Jordan and elsewhere in the region.

Which makes you wonder what, exactly, is this case about?
#Jordan-ian protesters (and citizens) have been calling for Bassem Awadalleh's arrest for 11 years over his stewardship of the privatization process (often unfairly, I may add).

Each time he was protected.

Why is he arrested now? What is his connection with the 20+ others?
Multiple arrests also reportedly include influential tribal figures, former security officials- if you believe their relatives posting on #Jordan social media

Which, of course, I cannot confirm or verify
With a wide array of people involved, this not your garden-variety "corruption case" with one or two senior officials involved.

This seems to be much wider. And, much stranger.

#Jordan #JordanArrests #الأردن
#الامير_حمزه

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6 Apr
I can say that measures such as court-ordered media blackouts and vague application of anti-terror & cybercrime laws, although intended for domestic media /audience, have made #Jordan *the most* difficult country for me to report from in the region

That's after 14 years here
And I say "most difficult" because the red-lines are constantly moving, the goalposts shifting, topics that are permissible today are suddenly forbidden tomorrow.

Sources are afraid old social media posts, brought to light because of an interview today, may land them in court.
It encourages "self-censorship" even on foreign news outlets based in #Jordan, particularly among #Jordan-ian employees for foreign outlets

Problem is, with the shifting red-lines, people give into full self-censorship and everyone starts to sound like like a state news agency.
Read 5 tweets
3 Apr
#Jordan Prince Hamzah: military chief "informed me that I was not allowed to go out, to communicate with people or to meet with them because in the meetings that I had been present in....there had been criticism of the government or the king"

Incredible

bbc.com/news/world-mid…
#Jordan Prince Hamzah claims (confirms?) his staff have been arrested, he and his family have been placed under house arrest in the Al-Salaam Palace outside Amman, in video to the BBC.

This is absolutely unprecedented, unparalleled, and perhaps just the start of a deeper crisis
#Jordan royal family have a history of banding together when times are tough. Dissent is present but never public.

To have a former crown prince, son of King Hussein directly call out the leadership and the palace is a previously unthinkable escalation.

#الأردن #الامير_حمزه
Read 9 tweets
3 Jan 20
1/ Outside of core supporters, few in the #Arab world will shed tears over the death of Qassem Soleimani, who in their view went from a hero of resistance to Israel to mastermind of ethno-sectarian cleansing + decade-long campaign of weakening, isolating, butchering Sunni Muslims
2/Soleimani had emerged, in many people’s minds, as both the mastermind and symbol of Iran’s alleged hegemonic ambitions in the #Arab world and the leader of yet another foreign occupation force on Arab lands. #QassemSoleimani #Iran
3/ Seeing the Iranian Soleimani appear in Damascus, on the frontlines in #Syria, #Iraq, and at the heart of #Baghdad, was a constant reminder of the decline of not only Syrian and Iraqi regional influence and national sovereignty- but the defeat of #Arab nationalism itself
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