The security services have blocked a number of streets in the capital Amman, while the perimeters of the "Fourth and Interior" Boroughs has witnessed intensive reinforcements from the General Security Service and the gendarmerie forces, to prevent the teachers 'union sit-in applying the salaries raise agreed upon with the government, five years ago and estimated at 50%.
The spokesman of the Teachers' union, Noureddine Nadim, said in press statements on Thursday that "the union was surprised that the security services stopped buses carrying teachers coming from governorates to Amman, and arrested of a number of them."
"The right to peaceful demonstrations in all its forms, including sit-in, is guaranteed to workers (including teachers) in accordance with all relevant international standards and basic human rights principles," Ahmed Awad, a researcher and director of the Phoenix Center for Economic and Informatics Studies, wrote in a tweet on Twitter. ".
For its part, "Hemam" the coordinator of civil society institutions criticized the restrictions and government measures taken to prevent teachers from carrying out a sit-in called by the Teachers Association on
" Hemam" said that the attempt to prevent teachers from carrying out their sit-in by inciting against them and their union, and preventing the arrival of buses carrying them to the sit-in and blocking roads leading to it on the Fourth borough is a violation of their right to strike and peaceful assembly, according to the Jordanian Constitution and all international human rights laws ratified by Jordan.
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