AMMAN: Jordan’s King Abdullah II mentioned Thursday his half-brother Prince Hamzah, accused of involvement in a coup plot remaining yr, is in a state of “myth” and can stay below area arrest. Government in Jordan introduced in April remaining yr that that they had foiled a bid to destabilize the Western-allied kingdom, marking an extraordinary disaster in a country noticed as a pillar of regional balance. Two former officers had been sentenced to fifteen years in prison in July once they had been discovered in charge of conspiring to topple the king in desire of Prince Hamzah, who escaped prosecution however used to be ordered into area arrest.
The king mentioned in a commentary launched on Thursday that his half-brother would stay below area arrest, and that additional restrictions can be imposed upon him. “A Royal Decree used to be issued, approving the advice of the council shaped based on the Royal Circle of relatives Legislation, to limit the communications, position of place of abode, and motion of Prince Hamzah,” the commentary from the royal palace mentioned.
Hamzah had remaining month introduced he used to be “renouncing the name of prince”, a month after a royal court docket commentary mentioned he had apologized to the king for the tried coup. However Abdullah II mentioned on Thursday that Hamzah had all through the previous yr or so “exhausted all alternatives to revive himself at the proper trail”. “The myth he lives in isn’t new,” the king mentioned. “Now not lengthy after vowing to resign his misguided techniques, he is going again on his guarantees and returns to the trail he selected years in the past, hanging his pursuits ahead of the country.”
The king appointed Hamzah as crown prince in 1999, on the request of his past due father, King Hussein, however got rid of him from the publish in 2004, later naming his son, Prince Hussein, as subsequent in line to the Hashemite throne. Hamzah’s mom, American-born Queen Noor, mentioned on Twitter in a while after the king’s announcement that “some really peculiar and stranger than fiction stuff (is) circulating at the moment,” with out elaborating.-AFP