Jordanian authorities ban visits to Hamas detainees

The Jordanian authorities on Friday refused to permit the Jordanian engineers to visit al-Jweida prison, south of Amman, where 15 members of the Hamas movement are jailed, after they were arrested recently in Amman.

The Jordanian Engineers Union's chairman, Azzam al-Hnidi, said the province of the capital, Amman, and its police told him on the telephone that the authorities do not approve of visits from the engineers to the detainees.