Jordan's king sends tough message on dissent in royal family

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Jordanian authorities said on Sunday (Apr 4) they foiled a “malicious plot” by a former crown prince to destabilise the kingdom with foreign ...

to destabilise the kingdom with foreign support, contradicting the senior royal's claims that he was being punished for speaking out against corruption and incompetence.

Yet Safadi’s news conference Sunday did little to address questions surrounding the weekend's dramatic events. In the night from Saturday to Sunday, Hamzah had announced in a secretly recorded video leaked to the media that he had been placed under house arrest.Hamzah's mother, Noor, weighed in on Twitter, writing Sunday: “Praying that truth and justice will prevail for all the innocent victims of this wicked slander. God bless and keep them safe.

Hamzah is a popular figure in Jordan, widely seen as pious and modest. But in his televised address, Safadi painted a far different picture, accusing the prince of engaging in a secret plot that would have harmed national security had it not been foiled at the last minute. Safadi said Hamzah was warned Saturday by the country's military chief to halt his activities but rejected the request. He claimed the prince recorded the conversations, passed them to foreign sources and issued his video message “in an attempt to distort facts and to gain sympathy domestically and internationally.” He said the prince's activities amounted to “incitement and efforts to mobilize citizens against the state.

Safadi declined to say whether the prince would be charged with a crime, saying only there were attempts to resolve the matter amicably. None of the leaders in the region “would like to see havoc hitting any regime,” Kamhawi said. “It could be contagious.”

 

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