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Jordan Times
23-05-2025
- Health
- Jordan Times
2 new drug addiction treatment centres underway to expand services — PSD
By JT - May 22,2025 - Last updated at May 22,2025 Minister of Interior Mazen Farraya and Director of Public Security Directorate Maj. Gen. Obeidallah Maaytah on Thursday visit the addiction treatment centre of the Anti-Narcotics Department (Petra photo) AMMAN — Minister of Interior Mazen Farraya and Director of Public Security Directorate (PSD) Maj. Gen. Obeidallah Maaytah on Thursday visited the addiction treatment centre of the Anti-Narcotics Department (AND). The two officials were briefed on the centre's efforts in medical, therapeutic, and social services provided to all addicts seeking to receive treatment, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported. During the visit, Farraya highlighted importance of following up on Royal directives to intensify efforts and enhance national cooperation to combat drugs, curb its spread, and encourage and assist addicts in overcoming their addiction crisis. The minister praised the PSD's "pioneering" and social role in establishing a specialised centre for addiction treatment, providing "advanced" addict-cantered therapeutic and psychological services and following up aftercare programmes for beneficiaries, who received free treatment at the PSD's expense. Farraya also valued the centre's systems, as well as the "strict confidentiality" that dominates treatment procedures and practices. The minister added that this policy encourages individuals and their families to "voluntarily" seek treatment without legal repercussions, which enhances their chances of recovery and reintegration into society. Maaytah stressed the PSD's continued field, awareness, and treatment efforts, as part of the national strategy to combat drugs. He noted that the PSD works in an integrated manner with various institutions to provide the necessary support to the centre to ensure continued services, in accordance with the "highest" international standards. Maaytah said that the PSD continues to fulfil its social and humanitarian responsibilities and "prioritises" establishment of two new addiction treatment centres in the northern and southern regions. He noted the PSD also plans to launch special treatment facilities within Jordan's correctional and rehabilitation centres, similar to Birin Correctional and Rehabilitation Centre. Touring the treatment centre and checking on its therapeutic, rehabilitation, and recreational facilities, the minister was briefed by the AND director on the facility's operating procedures, treatment and rehabilitation programmes and the stages to achieve recovery. The minister said the centre has already provided services to hundreds of cases and contributed to improving lives of many families.
Jordan Times
29-04-2025
- Politics
- Jordan Times
Interior minister, Bahraini counterpart talk cooperation
Interior Minister Mazen Farraya and Bahraini counterpart Sheikh Gen. Rashid bin Abdullah Al Khalifa on Monday discuss aspects of cooperation in security and policing fields (Petra photo) AMMAN — Interior Minister Mazen Farraya on Monday received his Bahraini counterpart Sheikh Gen. Rashid bin Abdullah Al Khalifa and his accompanying delegation. The two sides discussed aspects of cooperation in security and policing fields, stressing the 'deep-rooted' relations between the two kingdoms, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported. Sheikh Rashid expressed his country's full support of Jordan, lauding measures taken by the Kingdom to safeguard its national security and reiterating Bahrain's support of Jordan "in all circumstances." The Bahraini minister was welcomed by Farraya and a number of officials on arrival in Amman earlier on Monday.
The Guardian
23-04-2025
- Politics
- The Guardian
Jordan shuts local branch of Muslim Brotherhood after arrests
Jordan's interior ministry announced on Wednesday that it was shutting down the Jordanian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, and banned promoting the 'ideology' or being a member of the Islamist political group. The ban came a week after Jordan said they had arrested 16 members of the Muslim Brotherhood they accused of threatening national security by training militants, making explosives and plotting to strike targets in Jordan with rockets and drones. The Muslim Brotherhood denied any involvement with the alleged attack. Interior minister Mazen Farraya connected the banning of the Muslim Brotherhood with the alleged plot, saying members of the group attempted to 'smuggle and destroy large quantities of documents from its headquarters' on the same night that authorities carried out arrests. Farraya said that the Muslim Brotherhood had been 'working in secret and undertaking activities that threatened to undermine stability, security and national unity.'. The Muslim Brotherhood is a political Islamist group founded in Cairo in 1928 which has branches across the Middle East, including in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and Palestine. Jordan's move to ban the Jordanian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood comes after years of a steadily tightening a crackdown on the group. The group, the political wing of which the Islamic Action Front (IAF) won 31 out of 138 parliamentary seats in elections last September, is the largest and most popular opposition organisation in Jordan. The group has criticised the Jordanian government's 1994 peace treaty with Israel, which is largely unpopular among the country's population, the majority of which are of Palestinian descent. The group also took an active role in demonstrations in Amman, Jordan's capital, which saw thousands come out in protest against the war in Gaza over the months following 7 October 2023. Last year, Human Rights Watch criticised Jordanian authorities for arresting and harassing 'scores of Jordanians' who participated in the pro-Palestine protests or posted online in support of them. Jordan's government has been outspoken against the Israeli war in Gaza, expelling the country's ambassador from Jordan and consistently calling for an end to the humanitarian siege on the territory. Protesters, however, have called for the government to scrap the peace treaty between the two countries, cancel an unpopular gas deal end all exports to Israel. The Muslim Brotherhood and its ally in Gaza, Hamas, has experienced a surge in popularity among Jordanians since the start of Israel's war in Gaza. Jordan expelled Hamas's leadership and shut its offices in 1999 and views the growing popularity among its own population for the Islamist group warily. Authorities searched the headquarters and branches of the IAF across the country on Wednesday. A week earlier authorities arrested Khaled al-Johani, the office director of the IAF. Despite the ban of the Muslim Brotherhood, the IAF's work would continue, Wael Sakka, the party's general secretary told the Guardian. 'Our party has no organisational link with any other entity and we are in compliance with the provisions of the constitution, the political parties law and Jordanian law,' Sakka said. Jordan's interior minister said in a statement that the government was committed to guaranteeing freedom of expression and political activity in accordance with relevant laws. The country's cybercrime unit later said that publishing anything on social media relating to the Muslim Brotherhood would be met with legal action. Rights groups have warned of a steady erosion of civic space in Jordan in recent years, with rights monitor Freedom House downgrading the country from 'Partially Free' to 'Not Free' in 2021 due to its crackdown on civil society. A passing of a new cybercrime law in 2023 which criminalised speech 'which undermined national unity', among other things, on social media platforms also drew outrage from human rights groups.
Al Etihad
23-04-2025
- Politics
- Al Etihad
Jordan bans activities by Muslim Brotherhood, says it is illegal
23 Apr 2025 17:05 AMMAN (WAM)Jordanian Interior Minister Mazen Farraya on Wednesday announced that the disbanded group known as the Muslim Brotherhood will be considered an illegal society effective immediately, in accordance with the a statement to the media, carried by Jordan News Agency (Petra), the Jordanian minister said all activities of any kind by this group will be banned and considered illegal and subject to legal noted that the work of the committee overseeing the dissolution of the Muslim Brotherhood and the confiscation of its moveable and immoveable assets will be expedited, in accordance with the relevant court minister said membership of this disbanded group is illegal, adding that it is also illegal to promote its ideology and attempts to do so will be subject to legal the minister announced that any offices or headquarters used by the group around Jordan will be closed down, even if such venues are set up under the guise of other entities, adding that any action otherwise would be subject to legal stressed that political entities, media outlets, users on various social media platforms, civil society organisations, and other entities are prohibited from dealing with or publishing anything by the Muslim Brotherhood or all its arms and affiliates, subject to legal Jordanian minister said the necessary measures will be taken against any individual or entity proven to be involved in criminal acts connected to the cases currently in court or to the disbanded group, in light of the court's said the disbanded group known as the Muslim Brotherhood—on the same night that authorities revealed the plot targeting national security last week—attempted to smuggle and destroy large quantities of documents from its headquarters to hide its suspicious activities and Jordanian interior minister also revealed that following the announcement of foiling the plot targeting the national security of Jordan, security agencies uncovered an operation to manufacture and test explosives carried out by the son of one of the Muslim Brotherhood's leaders, along with others who sought to target security agencies and sensitive sites in the said today's decisions were taken, out of the state's responsibility to ensure the safety of society and prevent actions that disturb security and public order and distort the best political practices, as well as to safeguard Jordan's security and minister said the Jordanian state, throughout its history, has always protected the freedom to form political parties and associations, in addition to freedom of expression and political activities, in accordance with the added that in spite of this, it has been proven that elements of the Muslim Brotherhood group—which was disbanded in accordance with final court rulings—have been working in secret and undertaking activities that threatened to undermine stability, security, and national unity, while disturbing public minister said no state can accept the actions revealed, involving the moving of explosives and weapons through Jordanian cities, and storing them within residential neighborhoods, as well as the manufacturing and concealing of rockets in the capital's suburbs, and training and recruiting operatives inside and outside the said the continued activities of the Muslim Brotherhood pose a threat to society and endanger citizens' lives, at a time the state seeks to safeguard security and stability while moving forward with development, amid various regional and global interior minister stressed the government's commitment to guaranteeing freedom of expression and political activity in accordance with the relevant laws and regulations, while ensuring that no activity jeopardizes Jordan's security and stability. 'We are at a time when concerted efforts are greatly needed to fulfill the aspirations of the Jordanian people,' Farraya added.
