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Jordan urged to free 'devil worship' students
Human Rights Watch calls on authorities to release five university students
accused of desecrating Quran in Mafraq city.
Last Modified: 26 Mar 2013 20:38
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged Jordanian authorities to release five
university students detained over allegations that they desecreted the Quran
and engaged in "devil worship".
The Al al-Bayt university students, who were accused of ripping and burning
Quran manuscripts while performing a "religious ritual" in a campus bathroom in
the city of Mafraq, were assaulted by a crowd of other students before being
detained two weeks ago.
HRW's statement, released on Tuesday, also called for the arrest of those who
attacked the students.
"The students, who deny the accusations and have neither been charged nor taken
before a judge, were assaulted by a crowd of other students, and their
attackers should be brought to justice," said HRW.
The US-based rights group said that the sister of one of the detained students
said that a group of about 200 other students attacked her sister and four male
students on the university campus following the Quran desecration rumour.
"She said the attackers appeared to have targeted the five students because
they frequently dress in black and are rock music devotees," the statement
said.
Campus officials and student activists managed to pull the five students to
safety, but local authorities then detained them and later handed them over to
the security services.
All five deny any involvement in the alleged desecration.
The father of one of the male students told HRW that his son had phoned him in
distress from the university campus on the morning of March 12 and begged for
help, saying: "Father they are beating me and I don't know why."
The Jordanian news website al-Sabeel reported on March 21 that the Office of
the Public Prosecutor had extended the students detention for another seven
days while it investigated them for "sowing discord [fitna] and defaming
religion".
The father of one of the five told HRW that, according to his lawyer, the
authorities have not yet filed any charges.
Source:
Agencies
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