related to the respect for the freedom of association and expression, as well as the
effectiveness and adequacy of the actions taken by the concerned authorities to secure the
necessary protection for the protestors, including the protection of lives and public and
private properties .Accordingly the fact-finding team met with all relevant bodies and
collected testimonies and followed-up websites and social networking website.
As For the death of the citizen (Khairi Jamil), given that investigation into the cause of his
death is considered a technician matter, and that the National Center for Forensic Medicine
is the competent body to determine the cause of death, it was officially announced, based
on their findings, that the cause of death was acute heart failure resulting from cardiac
hypertrophy and narrowing of the coronary arteries .the Centers also sought to verify the
cause of death by meeting with the participants of the Interior Circle demonstrations, who
have confirmed the deceased was not subjected to beatings or other forms of ill-treatment.
13- .The Center also issued a press release dated 21/04/2011 whereby it denounced the
unfortunate incidents that took place in Zarqa City on Friday 15/04/2011. It was a departure
from the united national march, and an unacceptable manifestation of breaching the
security and public order. Also the Center followed-up the statements and the news that
have been reported in the media ,in its various forms, in which the protestors were shown
carrying blade weapons (swords, daggers, knives), batons and sticks, which prompted the
existing security forces to control the demonstrators with tear gas and water cannons, and
as a result of the demonstrators’ resistance and the occurrence of injuries between the
public security personnel, the gendarmerie forces intervened, by using the appropriate
strength, to control, disperse and arrest some of them.
The Center also visited and interviewed a number of detainees from the Salafi group in the
Juwaida CRC, on the 5th of August. The visits aimed to gain first-hand knowledge of their
conditions and the circumstances of their arrest by the Prosecutor of the State Security
Court on the grounds of their participation in a sit-in in Zarqa Governorate on 04.15.2011.
They were charged with inciting riots and of unlawful assembly. Following the
implementation of the visits, the Center prepared reports that enabled it to take a firm stand
on that issue. Based on that, the Center addressed the Prime Minister and the PSD
concerning the procedures that were followed in arresting of the people involved or not
involved in the Zarqa sit-in on Friday, 04/15/2011.
.14- The Center formed a fact-finding team to monitor and document the events that were
followed during the demonstration and sit-in that took place on 15/07/2011, in order to
establish facts about the actions that took place on that day as well as on the attacks on the
participants and the media and security personnel, as well as to ensure the effectiveness and
the adequacy of the procedures that have been taken by the competent authorities, and
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