5. The cruel and inhuman treatment that some detainees are subjected to in some
police centers, especially ex-convicts, repeated offenders, and some persons who have
been placed under house arrest.
6. The increasing number of the allegations and complaints of torture and other forms
of ill-treatment because of the combination of the powers of investigation and detention
in some security departments, especially the Departments of Criminal Investigation and
the Anti-Narcotics and Counterfeiting Department, which gives rise to realistic
problems during the stages of investigation and collecting statements 7.
Paragraph (4 / A)
The administrative detention violates the right to freedom and personal security in light
of continuing the application of the Crimes Prevention Law by the local governors
without observance tothe due legal procedures containedin the Code of Criminal
Procedures, when issung administrative detention decision,which are the same procedures
inshrined in Article (5) of the Prevention of Crimes Act for the eyar 1954. According the
PSDthe year 2014witnessed a remarkable increase in the number of the administrative
detainees to reach the number of (20216) 8 compared to (12 766) detainees in 2013, while
in 2012 the number was (12410), and (11345) in 2011. In the same time, the same
violations recorded by the center in previous reports persisited also in 2014.
7Look
at the JNCHR 11th Annual Report on the Condition of Human Rights in the Hashemite of Jordan
(www.nchr.org.jo)
8There
are (3541)foreign administrative detainees, according to the PSD statistics. However, the Interior
Ministry refutes this figure because it is based on the serial number of the process of the administrative
detention, as the detainee receives several numbers in various stages of the arrest process from the
beginning until the end; hence, the serial number is doubled. the particular problems that administrative
detainees suffer from are as follows: (i) the continuation of local governors in detaining people in detention
facilities away from their families domicile, (ii) the length of detention, especially for foreign nationals,
which is due to their inability to pay bails, the delay in issuing a decision of their deportation or pending final
decisions on their cases. This contributes to increasing the crowding in the CRCs, and the occurrence of
disturbances therein. (iii) the continued lack of commitment of the local governors to the due procedures of
the administrative detention, namely; not allowing lawyers to attend the interrogation with the suspected
person, embarking on investigations without the existence of a written complaints, which is inviolate of the
amending law of the Bar Association Law no 25 for the year 2014, which provides for the right of the lawyer
to represent their clients before the local governor, (iiii) the continuance of local governor to implement
the house arrest based on the criminal records , upon the recommendation of the security bodies without
taking into account the conditions and the stipulations enshrined in the Law, (iiiii) women are still the most
adversely affected person the application of the Crimes Prevention Law concerning, the honor killing
crimes as they are deprived of their liberty for the purpose of protecting them. Some of them are still
detained for more than 5 years, however, there are national efforts are being exerted for releasing them
and placing them in a designated shelter or a safe rehabilitation home care instead of the preventive
incarceration.
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