Jordan: Prisoner of conscience/health concern/ill-treatment/unfair trial

Index Number: MDE 16/009/2002
Date Published: 11 June 2002
Categories: Jordan, Middle East And North Africa

Prisoner of conscience Toujan al-Faisal (f), aged 53, was hospitalised on 9 June. She had been refusing prison food for around two weeks, after prison guards reportedly threatened to contaminate her food with dirt and other substances. She is protesting at her unfair trial and the conditions which she is being held in, at a women's prison in the capital, Amman.