AMMAN —
The head of the
Jordan Bar Association (JBA), Yahya Abu Abboud, criticized the
arrests made under the Cybercrime Law of citizens who committed no other crime
than expressing their opinions on social media, stressing that the application
of the Cybercrime Law is selective and “this is unacceptable”, according to
Jo24.
اضافة اعلان
He said that the Constitution guarantees citizens
the freedom to express their opinion within the limits of the law, which came
to regulate, not to prevent, people from exercising this right.
Re-arrest orders by governors in cases not related
to honor and murder are illegal, he said, indicating that the judiciary decides
whether to arrest or release people, and no authority may re-arrest them. He also said that the power to arrest is
granted to governors under the law to prevent specific crimes in special cases,
but the re-arrests made by them are unjustified and illegal.
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