On charges, including opposing the rule in the country .. Bassem Awadallah and Sharif Hassan before the “State Security” court in Jordan

Today, Monday, the first session of the trial of former royal court chief Bassem Awadallah and Sharif Hassan bin Zaid begins in Jordan, which included accusations of opposing the rule in the country and endangering the security and safety of society.

The closed trials will be held in the Military State Security Court without the presence of the media.

And the Jordanian authorities announced last April that they were able to thwart an attempt to destabilize the country’s security, and arrested 16 people close to Prince Hamzah, who were later released by a royal decision, while the royal court said that dealing with Prince Hamzah took place within the Hashemite family.

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two defendants in the case, Bassem Ibrahim Youssef Awadallah, former head of the royal court, and Sharif Abdul Rahman Hassan Zaid Hussein, a member of the royal family, are being tried on charges of “the felony of incitement to oppose the existing political regime in the kingdom” and “the felony of carrying out acts that endanger the safety of society and its security at risk and cause discord.

On Sunday, June 13, the Public Prosecution approved the court’s indictment of the prosecutor’s indictment against the two defendants in the case, assigning them two main charges.

On April 22, the court released 16 of the 18 defendants in the case, after a directive from King Abdullah II, in response to an appeal by personalities for their release.