{"id":2741,"date":"2021-04-29T09:15:56","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T06:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whrdmena.org\/?p=2741"},"modified":"2023-04-16T02:11:40","modified_gmt":"2023-04-15T23:11:40","slug":"jordan-solidarity-wih-teachers-is-not-a-crime-we-demand-annulment-of-the-sentence-imposed-on-whrd-and-syndicate-activist-laila-hedaidon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wh.whrdmena.org\/en\/2021\/04\/29\/jordan-solidarity-wih-teachers-is-not-a-crime-we-demand-annulment-of-the-sentence-imposed-on-whrd-and-syndicate-activist-laila-hedaidon\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan: Solidarity wih Teachers is not a Crime! We Demand Annulment of the Sentence Imposed on WHRD and Syndicate Activist Laila Hedaidon"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Jordan: Solidarity wih Teachers is not a Crime! We Demand Annulment of the Sentence Imposed on WHRD and Syndicate Activist Laila Hedaidon<\/h2>\n<p><b>Statement \u2013 Thursday 29 April 2021<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Regional Women Human Rights Defenders (WHRD) Coalition in the Middle East and North <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2742 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/whrdmena.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/EN-statement-1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wh.whrdmena.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/EN-statement-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wh.whrdmena.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/EN-statement-1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wh.whrdmena.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/EN-statement-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/wh.whrdmena.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/EN-statement-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wh.whrdmena.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/EN-statement-1-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/wh.whrdmena.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/EN-statement-1-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/wh.whrdmena.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/EN-statement-1-180x180.jpg 180w, https:\/\/wh.whrdmena.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/EN-statement-1-90x90.jpg 90w, https:\/\/wh.whrdmena.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/EN-statement-1-450x450.jpg 450w, https:\/\/wh.whrdmena.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/EN-statement-1-270x270.jpg 270w, https:\/\/wh.whrdmena.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/EN-statement-1-20x20.jpg 20w, https:\/\/wh.whrdmena.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/EN-statement-1-225x225.jpg 225w, https:\/\/wh.whrdmena.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/EN-statement-1-900x900.jpg 900w, https:\/\/wh.whrdmena.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/EN-statement-1-1350x1350.jpg 1350w, https:\/\/wh.whrdmena.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/EN-statement-1-96x96.jpg 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>African region (MENA) condemns and expresses its deep concern towards the sentence imposed on Jordanian WHRD and syndicate activist Laila Hedaidon of imprisonment for 3 months, after she acted in solidarity with her teaching colleagues who were arrested post their participation in demonstrations for improving living conditions for them and receiving better pension during July and August 2020, after which the authorities shut down the Teachers\u2019 Syndicate in Amman in July 2020, and 11 other branches across the country<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. And it is what the coalition believes she is being punished for, and her hard work in the field of human rights, and her defense of her syndicate rights and freedom of expression and assembly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is worth noting that the Amman Magistrates Court refused for the 5<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> time her request to substitute the sentence of Laila Hedaidon\u2019s imprisonment sentence with a fine, which issued by the same court due to her writing on social media on teachers\u2019 issues, as the sentence was issued in accordance to the cybercrimes law<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Regional Coalition calls on the Jordanian authorities to immediately annul the sentence issued against WHRD and syndicate activist Laila Hedaidon, stop the use of loose statutes and violate human rights to punish WHRDs and syndicate activists in dissent, and open the space for them to defend rights and freedoms. The Regional Coalition also holds the Jordanian authorities responsible for Hedaidon\u2019s physical integrity and psychological wellbeing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jordan: Solidarity wih Teachers is not a Crime! We Demand Annulment of the Sentence Imposed on WHRD and Syndicate Activist Laila Hedaidon Statement \u2013 Thursday 29 April 2021 The Regional Women Human Rights Defenders (WHRD) Coalition in the Middle East and North African region (MENA) condemns and expresses its deep concern towards the sentence imposed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[414],"tags":[456,144,476],"class_list":["post-2741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advocacy-work","tag-jordan","tag-statement","tag-west-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wh.whrdmena.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wh.whrdmena.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wh.whrdmena.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wh.whrdmena.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wh.whrdmena.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2741"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wh.whrdmena.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6666,"href":"https:\/\/wh.whrdmena.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741\/revisions\/6666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wh.whrdmena.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wh.whrdmena.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wh.whrdmena.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wh.whrdmena.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}