By NNN-KUNA
Amman : Officials from the Arab Human Rights Organization will meet Jordanian parliamentarians next week to discuss the issue of Jordanian prisoners held in Israel and some Arab countries.
The upcoming meeting will touch upon all Jordanian prisoners held captives in jails of the Jewish state and some Arab nations, Hani Al-Dahla, President of the Arab Human rights organization, told KUNA Sunday.
The meeting was organized after the organization received tens of complaints about the fate of the Jordanian prisoners, he said.
Al-Dahla said he would submit to the Jordanian lawmakers a file containing names of Jordanian prisoners and the reasons behind their apprehensions.
Abdulkareem Al-Shareeda, Chairman of the Prisons and Detention Facilities Committee in the Organization, said the organization has tens of files of Jordanian prisoners.
“None of them (Jordanian prisoners) should be ignored regardless the country holding them,” he told KUNA.
Every prisoner’s file is a unique problem, said Al-Shareeda, who noted the problem of Jordanian prisoners in Israel whose status should be examined and followed closely.
Meanwhile, Chairman of the Jordanian Parliament’s committee charged with following the prisoners’ issue, MP Fakhri Eskandar said the committee members would work with the government of Amman to bring about the release of inmates.
“Jordan is a signatory to agreements with world’s countries dealing with extradition of prisoners, we just have to activate these agreements,” Eskandar said in a statement to KUNA.
Sixty-six Jordanian MPs have recently signed a petition and referred it to the government in which they urged rapid closure of the Jordanian prisoners’ file.