Activists protest in solidarity with Jordanian prisoner in Israel

AMMAN — Dozens of Jordanians on Tuesday participated in a sit-in near the Foreign Ministry to express solidarity with the family of Jordanian prisoner in Israel Abdullah Abu Jaber who has been on a hunger strike for some 50 consecutive days.

Abu Jaber started the strike to demand spending the last third of his jail sentence in Jordan, according to a statement from the media team supporting Jordanian prisoners in Israel, Fedaa.

Abu Jaber was sentenced to a 20-year prison term in 2000 for “resisting the occupation forces”, Fedaa said. Mohammad Abu Jaber, Abdullah’s brother, said that Foreign Ministry Secretary General Mohammad Tayseer Bani Yassin and Adviser Mohammad Abu Wardeh received protesters and promised to follow up on requests to arrange visits to prisoners’ families, the statement said.