Jordanian Prisoner Anas Hathnawi Enters 23rd Consecutive Year in Detention

Anas Rashed Ahmad Hathnawi has spent 22 years inside Israeli occupation prisons. Today he enters his 23rd. An occupation court rejected his bid for a sentence reduction in 2021 after no lawyer from Jordan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs or representative from the Jordanian Embassy appeared to follow his case.

Israeli forces arrested Hathnawi, a Jordanian national from Jenin, on March 9, 2004, after a pursuit that lasted close to a year. Interrogators tortured him for more than four months, pressing him for information about his ties to resistance groups. Three years later, a court sentenced him to 27 years for taking part in military operations and shootings that wounded Israeli soldiers.

Throughout his detention, prison authorities moved Hathnawi between facilities, locked him in solitary confinement, and denied him family visits for long periods as part of the occupation’s broader punitive policies against prisoners.

Hathnawi is married with three children. He holds a Jordanian national number and Jordanian identity card.