AMMAN — The State Security Court (SSC) on Wednesday
handed down a 12-year prison sentence to a former deputy after finding him
guilty of threatening the life of His Majesty
King Abdullah, inciting national
strife, and other serious charges, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.
اضافة اعلان
In June 2021, the
Lower House of Parliament voted to dismiss
MP Osama Ajarmeh (Amman, 5th District) after he made inflammatory remarks
deemed offensive to the King. Shortly thereafter, he was arrested on a slew of
serious charges following protests in his hometown of Naur, southwest of Amman.
The court also handed prison terms ranging from seven to
eight years to other accomplices of the sacked MP. In its verdict, the SSC said
that it was proven that all of the convicts had committed acts that endanger
the safety and security of society, foment strife, and manufactured flammable
materials with the intent to use them illegally.
The court also said that it found the former deputy guilty
of threatening the life of the King and of using narcotics. The court added in
its verdict that the convicts, following Ajarmeh’s dismissal from Parliament,
plotted to incite the Jordanian public against the political regime, its
institutions, and against security agencies and called for public disobedience.
Also, the court said Ajarmeh used assemblies and protests he called for and
organized to inflame strife, disturb public order, and endanger societal safety
and security.
In one of the protests they organized, the SSC explained,
the convicts incited those present against the Kingdom’s political regime. It
added that Ajarmeh urged the protesters to disobey and rise against state
agencies with force and violence, using inflammatory rhetoric intended to
incite public discontent and hatred against state institutions. To put their
scheme into action, the court explained, the convicts, including the former MP,
met in a farm and improvised Molotov cocktails using gasoline and burnt oil to
carry out a terrorist act by blowing up a gendarmerie armored vehicle in the
Naur area. However, SSC added, the scheme failed to materialize after security
agencies learned of the terrorist plot and prevented it from happening.
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