"With antigovernment demonstrations growing across Jordan in recent weeks, King Abdullah II approved a Cabinet reshuffle yesterday that brought in a number of new officials, notably the interior minister, but the public’s anger over accusations of corruption seemed unlikely to subside.
The deposed interior minister, Saad Hayel Srour, had been a focus of the protesters’ anger because he was thought to be responsible for the use of excessive force by the police against demonstrators, and because he allowed a wealthy businessman serving a prison term for corruption to leave the country, ostensibly for medical treatment.
Thousands of Jordanians demonstrated Friday in the cities of Irbid, Maan, Karak, and Tafileh, in addition to the capital, Amman, demanding transparency and an end to corruption.
The number of participants has been inching up in recent weeks, organizers and witnesses said, and the slogans have taken on a notable harshness.
Translation: not good protesters
Of course, if a government or its mouthpiece media is outrageously strident that's okay.
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The deposed interior minister, Saad Hayel Srour, had been a focus of the protesters’ anger because he was thought to be responsible for the use of excessive force by the police against demonstrators, and because he allowed a wealthy businessman serving a prison term for corruption to leave the country, ostensibly for medical treatment.
Thousands of Jordanians demonstrated Friday in the cities of Irbid, Maan, Karak, and Tafileh, in addition to the capital, Amman, demanding transparency and an end to corruption.
The number of participants has been inching up in recent weeks, organizers and witnesses said, and the slogans have taken on a notable harshness.
Translation: not good protesters
Of course, if a government or its mouthpiece media is outrageously strident that's okay.
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