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The Chief Public Prosecutor, Judge Yousef Al-Dhiabat, said that 8,454 inmates in correctional and rehabilitation centers were included in the partial and complete general amnesty.
Al-Dhiabat added during a press conference that 426 foreign inmates in correctional and rehabilitation centers were included in the general amnesty.
Al-Dhiabat spoke of dropping 14,964 criminal cases that were included in the general amnesty.
The Royal Decree was issued last Tuesday, in accordance with Article 31 of the Constitution and based on what the Senate and House of Representatives decided to ratify General Amnesty Law No. 5 of 2024 and add it to the laws of the Jordanian state.
Royal decrees were issued approving 4 general amnesty laws since His Majesty King Abdullah II assumed his constitutional powers on February 7, 1999. The first was in 1999, the second in 2011, the third in 2019, and the fourth in 2024. The
last general amnesty is No. 18 in the history of Jordan since the date of the first general amnesty in 1924.