The Communist Party of Britain calls for the freedom and safe release of Dr. Omar Awad and Comrade Osama Zain Aldin, leading members of the Jordanian Communist Party abducted and arrested by Jordan’s security forces on Sunday 8 March 2026.
These crude and arbitrary arrests were carried out without any legal justification. The Jordanian Communist Party is a lawfully registered political party in Jordan. The arrests of Dr. Awad and Comrade Aldin, following the arrest four days earlier of a university student, Bahaa Aldin Hisham Ahmad, exposes Jordan’s repressive policies aimed at restricting the lawful activities of political parties and targeting public freedoms.
The arrests of leading Jordanian communists is a desperate attempt to pressure the Jordanian Communist Party to abandon its principled positions on national and regional issues at a time when the whole region has been plunged into an imperialist war sponsored by the United States.
The Communist Party of Britain demands the safe release of our detained comrades. We call on Jordanian authorities to end the repression of political parties and trade unions.
Communists in Britain will register our protest at the Jordanian Embassy in London against the persecution of the Jordanian Communist Party and through public and parliamentary demands for Jordanian authorities to release our comrades.
Freedom for Omar Awad, Osama Zain Aldin and Bahaa Aldin Hisham Ahmad!
Alex Gordon,
General Secretary,
Communist Party Britain,
10 March 2026