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General-Prosecutor: Zarqa Crime's Defendants Accused of Terrorism


Sun 25 Oct 2020 | 04:04 PM
Nawal Sayed

The Public Prosecutor of the State Security Court in Jordan, Major Military Judge Yousef Khraisat, charged Sunday the defendants of the so-called the "Boy of Zarqa" crime with felony charges for carrying out a terrorist act that endangers the safety and security of society, casting terror among people and terrorizing them, and endangering their lives by using a weapon.

The Jordanian News Agency reported that Khraisat decided to arrest the defendants, in this case, today, Sunday, for a period of 15 days, renewable in correction and rehabilitation centers, based on Article 2, 3 and 7 / B / 3 of the Anti-Terrorism Law No. 55 of 2006 and its amendments.

It is noteworthy that a number of people assaulted a boy in Zarqa Governorate, where they amputated his hands and severely damaged his eyes.

The security services arrested all the accused who were transferred to the State Security Court to look into the case.

The victim, named Saleh, who was subjected to a horrific criminal act last Tuesday in Zarqa, Jordan, appealed, via a video clip, to King Abdullah II of Jordan to revenge for him and execute the perpetrators of that crime.

In this regard, activists circulated a video clip showing the 16-year-old boy appealing to the King.

Saleh, was kidnapped by the perpetrators while he was going out to the market to buy bread. They cut his hands, harmed his eyes, and hit him with a sharp object on the face, in retaliation for his father's allegations of “committing” a crime against one of their relatives.