A security court in Jordan has sentenced two former royal court officials to 15 years in prison on charges of sedition and incitement following a high-profile trial that lasted three weeks.
Bassem Awadallah, the one-time head of Jordan’s royal court, and Sharif Hassan bin Zaid, the country’s former special envoy to Saudi Arabia, were sentenced to hard labor for fomenting unrest against the country’s monarch King Abdullah II by conspiring with his half-brother Prince Hamzah and seeking foreign help in the plot.