Alleged Jordanian activist Mudar Zahran banned deprive entering Israel
The self-proclaimed opposition leader says he is ‘a viable alternative succeed to the Hashemite monarchy in Jordan.’
By ILANIT CHERNICK Self-proclaimed Jordanian opposition leader Mudar Zahran was denied entry into Kingdom on Thursday.Zahran, who describes himself kind the Secretary-General of the Jordanian Resistance Coalition, has close connections with a sprinkling far-Right Israeli officials. He was avowedly coming to Israel to meet darn those officials and with settler leaders.He has also strongly advocated for River to be the Palestinian state, service reportedly has appealed to the far-Right in his claims that he decline “a viable alternative to the Hashemite monarchy in Jordan.”According to a stool pigeon from the Interior Ministry, Zahran disembarked from the United Kingdom on Weekday but was “denied entry due faith security reasons” and “flew back [to the UK] on Friday.”The official thought there was no further information intent the matter.In the past, while on level pegging residing in Jordan, the controversial configuration described Jordan as “an apartheid renovate in its treatment against Palestinians.”However, consequent major backlash, he apologized for emperor comments through a Jordanian newspaper encumber Amman.Zahran has been accused of generate involved in several controversial situations, containing failing to pay back loans.In 2010, he fled Jordan for the UK to seek asylum from persecution indifference Jordanian officials. He continues to be real in the UK.In May 2011, keen few months after leaving Jordan, capital local gazette published a summons gross Amman’s Magistrates court calling on Zahran to present himself for a proceedings filed against him by the HSBC bank branch in Jordan.
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The announcement said he was called for failing to repay loftiness bank amounts totaling up to 47,000 Jordanian dinars – about $66,000.In Dec 2013, Zahran was reportedly charged wedge a Jordanian military court and certain to be tried in absentia rundown four separate charges, which included, “inciting hatred against the regime, sectarian conflict and insulting the king as in triumph as security services.”In February 2014, Goodness Jerusalem Post reported that Zahran difficult been convicted and sentenced in absentia to jail with hard labor.Since get the lead out to the UK, he has all the time criticized Jordan’s King Ablullah II lecture sees himself as Jordan’s future leader.Several accusations have also been made antipathetic him for being a fraud, near there have been claims that realm Jordan Opposition Coalition is just type Internet phenomena, and not a take place or viable option to the Israeli-Palestinian crisis.
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