AMMAN — Head of the Public Prosecution at the Court of Cassation Youssef Thiabat
rejected the
Jordanian Teachers’ Syndicate’s (JTS) request to appeal the
decision that dissolved the syndicate’s council, central body, and branches,
and gave council members jail sentences.
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The syndicate bodies were dissolved in 2020 for
“illegal assembly and inciting hatred at educational institutions”; council
members were given an initial one-year term in prison that was reduced to three
months by the Court of Appeal on June 26, 2022.
Following the Court of Cassation rejection, the
council’s dissolution and its members’ prison sentences are now final.
Teachers’ syndicate Attorney
Bassam Al-Fraihat told
Jordan News that now that the chief public prosecutor has rejected the request
for a cassation appeal, council members who have served one month of their
prison term, and are now out on bail, plan to submit a request to have their
remaining jail sentences replaced with a fine.
“We submitted a request to the head of public
prosecution to give us the right to go to the Court of Cassation, which is a
right guaranteed in the Constitution,” Fraihat said, adding that the JTS had
hoped to be vindicated by a ruling by the Court of Cassation.
He added that the syndicate will now form a
committee that will organize the election of a new council within six months.
The
Ministry of Education, as per the law, will form
a committee to monitor the elections for the council, central body, syndicate
president and deputy.
Nour Aldeen Nadeem, JTS spokesperson, one of the
council members sentenced to three months in jail, told
Jordan News that the
council members are disillusioned with the public prosecutor’s decision.
“We are proud and do not regret what we did and
sacrificed for, which was our duty. If we went back in time, we would do the
same,” he said.
“We are upset about the three-month jail sentence. What did we do besides
our duty as the constitutional representatives of teachers? By law, we have the
right to assemble and ask for our rights, including by striking, without
harming the nation’s interests,” he added, wondering why teachers’
representatives are treated the way they are when they “are not criminals or
murders; we are nationalists, a union, professionals, and teachers with a
message”.
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