http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/document.do?id=ENGMDE160052006
"Torture and other ill-treatment of political detainees has been a longstanding problem in Jordan, one that remains as persistent today as when Amnesty International began regularly documenting the problem over 20 years ago. Despite the mounting evidence and Jordan's obligations under international human rights treaties, the Jordanian authorities have failed to take effective action either to prevent torture or to punish those responsible. On the contrary, the Jordanian authorities continue to be complicit in torture: they maintain a system of incommunicado detention which facilitates torture and other ill-treatment of detainees and a related special security court whose judgments regularly appear to be based on little more than "confessions" which defendants allege were extracted under torture or other duress."
