06/10/2016
"The recent constitutional amendments do not simply represent the persistence of authoritarian rule. They represent the deepening of the nature of such rule. Proclamations, whether from their regime or analysts, of progress, reform, or stability cannot be taken at face value. It is thus imperative that we listen to the analysis of those historical and contemporary activists and intellectuals that the Jordanian regime relentlessly attempts to silence, contain, and erase. These struggles for social justice render any celebration of the regime’s ostensible reform suspect."
In a matter of days this past month, the Jordanian legislature moved rapidly to substantially concentrate official government power in the institution of the monarch. The cabinet introduced a set of constitutional amendments on 18 April 2016. ...
