Jordan: Further information on death Penalty/Torture/Legal concern, Badr Ramadan Sha'th

Index Number: MDE 16/005/2001
Date Published: 8 August 2001
Categories: Jordan, Middle East And North Africa

Badr Ramadan Sha'th has won his appeal against his death sentence and will be re-tried. The Court of Cassation ruled that the Criminal Court had not followed correct procedures when it sentenced him to death for murder in May 2001 and ordered that he be retried by the Higher Criminal Court.