{"id":33005,"date":"2017-03-04T16:21:31","date_gmt":"2017-03-04T16:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/jordan-hangs-15-convicts-at-dawn-most-in-years\/"},"modified":"2017-03-04T16:21:24","modified_gmt":"2017-03-04T16:21:24","slug":"jordan-hangs-15-convicts-at-dawn-most-in-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/jordan-hangs-15-convicts-at-dawn-most-in-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan hangs 15 convicts at dawn, most in years"},"content":{"rendered":"

{Prisoners, all Jordanians, convicted of ‘terrorism’ offences and rape hanged in Suaga prison, south of the capital.}<\/p>\n

Jordan hanged 15 death row prisoners at dawn on Saturday, in a further break with a moratorium on executions it had observed between 2006 and 2014.<\/p>\n

Ten were convicted of “terror” offences, including attacks on tourists, a writer, and security forces. Five others were convicted of crimes including rape, Mahmud al-Momani, Jordanian information minister told the official Petra news agency.<\/p>\n

The group of 10 were part of the so-called “Irbid terror cell”, which was responsible for several attacks.<\/p>\n

In 2005, King Abdullah II said Jordan aimed to become the first Middle Eastern country to stop carrying out executions, in line with most European countries.<\/p>\n

Courts continued to hand down death sentences, but they were not carried out.<\/p>\n

But public opinion blamed a rise in crime on the policy and in December 2014 Jordan hanged 11 men convicted of murder, drawing criticism from human rights groups.<\/p>\n

Opinion hardened after the murder by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) group of captured Jordanian pilot Maaz al-Kassasbeh whose plane had crashed in a rebel-held region of Syria in December 2014.<\/p>\n

Grisly footage posted in February the following year of him being burned alive in a cage outraged the public.<\/p>\n

Jordan swiftly hanged two people convicted of “terrorism” offences, including Sajida al-Rishawi.<\/p>\n

She had taken part in a 2005 suicide attack on luxury hotels in Amman organised by ISIL’s forebear, al-Qaeda in Iraq, but her explosives failed to detonate.<\/p>\n

Jordan is part of a US-led military coalition that has been carrying out air raids against ISIL in Iraq and Syria.<\/p>\n

\"Ten<\/figure>\n

Source:Al Jazeera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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