Damascus: Six Jordanians were released

An official at the Jordanian detainees committee in Syria on Thursday said that Syria has recently released 6 Palestinians who carry the Jordanian identity, including one woman, who were arrested under charges of being members if radical Palestinian groups.

Imad al-Sharqawi who runs this independent committee said that families of the six released persons asserted to him their release and return back to Jordan.

The Jordanian daily al-Aswaq quoted well-informed sources that those 6 detainees were released at the directives of the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and that they had returned to Jordan last Monday.

The Jordanian paper added that the Syrian authorities have recently gathered together most of the Jordanian and Palestinian detainees in al-Sweida school ( former al-Sweida prison) in preparation to rehabilitate them and to release them later.

According to this paper there is 420 Palestinian and Jordanian detainees in Syria.

Worthy mentioning that Jordanian- Syrian relations have been greatly increase, noting that President Bashar al-Assad and King Abdullah of Jordan maintain solid personal relations.