NICOSIA, Cyprus —Jordan’s former crown prince said Saturday he is under house arrest, but denied being part of any conspiracy against his half-brother King Abdullah II as he sharply criticized government corruption.
In a video sent to the BBC, Prince Hamzah bin Hussein said the army chief of staff had visited him earlier in the day to tell him: “I was not allowed to go out, to communicate with people or meet with them.”
He said a number of his friends had been arrested, his security removed and his internet and phone lines cut.
But the prince insisted he was not part of a conspiracy and was “not responsible for the breakdown in governance, for the corruption and for the in…
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