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Jordan: Arrests at the Union of Professional Associations
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                                                    Amman, June 25, 2001
Jordanian Government Clamps Down on Boycott Activities:
Several Jordanian activists were arrested this evening when security forces
raided and closed down the complex of the Union of Professional Associations
in Amman today June 25, 2002. The Union of Professional Association had
scheduled an activity tonite that includes an exhibit of Jordanian products
as part of the campaign to boycott American products, due to massive American
support for the Zionists. The activists arrested are Maysarah Malass,
Ali Abu Sukkar, Khaled Ramadan, Kinda Hattar who were picked up for being
present in the vicinity of the Union of Professional Associations at the
time. The complex of the Union of Professional Associations is currently
under siege. No one can get through to the areas. Massive security presence
there has made all the roads leading to the area inaccessible.


The activists arrested at the Union of Professional Associations were
released later that night.  However, it is obvious that the Jordanian
regime has decided to crack down on the boycott campaign of American
products that has been raging on the Jordanian street since March 2002.
Another indicator of that is a forum tackling same topic that was scheduled
to take place on Wednesday, June 26, 2002, in the northern city of Irbid but
which was also postponed indefinitely upon the orders of the governor there.
Munir Hamarneh, Ahmad Namari, and Ibrahim Alloush were supposed to speak at
that indefinitely postponed forum.  Previously, the Jordanian regime had
clamped down forcefully on the grass-roots pro-Intifada movement.  As that
movement turned to boycotting American products in response to American
support for the Zionists, the regime seems to have grown weary of the
boycott campaign not just for the anti-American political message it
conveys, but perhaps out of concern as well for the local compradore
capitalists who have thrown in their economic fate with American brand
names in joint ventures and who have been badly affected by the growing
boycott campaign.