"March 2021"--Table of contents page. "This report was researched and written by Sara Kayyali, Researcher in the Middle East and North Africa division at Human Rights Watch"--Acknowledgments. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Summary -- Methodology -- Background -- Causes of indebtedness and default -- Oversight of lending practices -- Dept imprisonment -- Consequences of debt imprisonment -- Ineffectiveness of debt imprisonment -- International legal obligations -- Recommendations -- Acknowledgments -- Annexes.
Summary:
"Jordan is one of the few countries in the world that still allows debt imprisonment. Failure to repay even small debts is a crime that carries a penalty of up to 90 days in prison per debt, and up to one year for a bounced check; courts routinely sentence people without even holding a hearing. The law does not make an exception for lack of income, or other factors that impede borrowers' ability to repay, and the debt remains even after serving the sentence. Over a quarter-million Jordanians face complaints of debt delinquency and around 2,630 people, about 16 percent of Jordan's prison population, were locked up for nonpayment of loans and bounced checks in 2019"--Summary.
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