Jordan: banning of sit in, a meeting
Jordan, Politics, 11/23/2002

The Jordanian government prevented a sit in by the Jordanian vocational trade union and a meeting for the committee in charge of resisting trade unionist normalization (with Israel), which were due yesterday.

Amman's governor Abdul Karim al-Malahimah issued two decision according to which he prevented the two said events, justifying that they are a violation of the law and "instructions."

The 14 Jordanian trade unions had called for holding Friday's sermons and prayers, and then to observe a sit in, in the square of the vocational trade unions complex in Amman yesterday.

For its part, the trade unions committee in charge of fighting normalization, for its part called for convening a meeting for members of this committee also due yesterday.

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