Jordanian activists released after spy agency crackdown

A number of government critics were released by the Mukhabarat, Jordan’s spy agency. most were former military, school teachers, and government workers, and felt that the agency was stepping past its boundaries.  Many of those arrested and held  had called for governmental transparency and boycotts to protest rising prices in a declining economy (due to influx of refugees from Iraq/Syria, whom they used to trade with), or had been part of a group ( like muslim brotherhood).

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