Overview
- Jordanian authorities executed six convicted people by hanging, the government said in an official statement from spokesperson Mohammad Al-Momani.
- Two of those executed were identified by the government as participants in the 2018 Salt cell case that left several security personnel dead during a raid.
- One executed convict was tied to the killing of Brig. Abdul Razzaq Dalabeh, the deputy police director in Ma'an who died during unrest over fuel prices in December 2022.
- The government said the other executions relate to drug-trafficking cases in which suspects resisted officers and opened fire, causing the deaths of security members in 2014, 2017 and 2018.
- Officials relied on a single formal government announcement for details and provided no account of recent appeals or wider domestic or international reactions, leaving legal and political consequences unclear.