Amman (AFP) - The Jordanian government approved on Sunday amending the laws related to "terrorism cases", by increasing the penalties, including raising the minimum limit of imprisonment, and imposing control measures on those convicted after the expiry of their sentences, in a step that comes after two bloody attacks witnessed by the Kingdom.
Published on: 08/11/2026 - 16:51
On Sunday, the government approved an amendment to the Terrorism Cases Law, granting it “urgent status,” to be presented to the House of Representatives within two weeks for discussion before voting on it.
The official Petra news agency reported that the amendment stipulates “doubling the minimum sentences in terrorism cases from 5 years to 10 years, and to 15 years in some cases,” noting that the law mainly stipulates the death penalty in these cases.
The proposed amendment also stipulates “imposing mandatory precautionary measures on those convicted of terrorist cases after the end of their sentences, ensuring that they remain under a tight security system for the period the court deems appropriate, and by means and tools determined by the court.”
The measures include "electronic monitoring, careful tracking, imposing house arrest and other tools to protect society from new risks that these people may pose to societal security and peace."
The amendment stipulates that the duration of each penalty be calculated separately “and not be satisfied with the highest penalty as is currently the case, for the purposes of achieving general and specific deterrence.”
It also includes “amending the year of imprisonment for those convicted in terrorism cases so that it becomes 12 months instead of 9 months,” “in view of the seriousness of these crimes and acts, their special nature, and the threat they entail to national security and community peace.”
The government also decided, “as of today, to prevent those currently convicted in terrorism cases from the exception granted for good behavior, so that the period of one year of imprisonment for them will be counted as 12 months, not 9 months.”
The amendments include “doubling the penalties for collaborators, instigators, and those interfering with the perpetrators of terrorist cases,” increasing penalties “on hate speech and behavior related to terrorist cases, and raising them to deterrent time periods.”
A security man was stabbed to death in Amman on November 5, in an attack that the authorities said was a “terrorist act.”
This came two weeks after nine people were killed in an unprecedented attack on a church in Karak Governorate. The authorities arrested three people suspected of carrying out the attack, and charged them with terrorism.
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