A/HRC/13/42* page 114 5. Jordan 231. Although the involvement of Jordan in the CIA proxy detention programme seems to have come to an end in 2005,434 secret detention in a domestic context remains a problem. This is above and beyond the sweeping powers of the Law on Crime Prevention Act of 1954, which “empowers provincial governors to authorize the detention without charge or trial of anyone suspected of committing a crime or ‘deemed to be a danger to society’. Such detention orders can be imposed for one year and are renewable.”435 Pursuant to the act, authorities may arbitrarily detain and isolate individuals at will under the guise of administrative detention.436 In its 2009 report, Amnesty International explained that 12,178 men and 81 women (according to figures gathered in 2007) were held without charge or trial under this provision.437 232. In 2007, for example, the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention reported on the case of Issam Mohamed Tahar Al Barqaoui Al Uteibi, a writer and theologian known in Jordan and in the Arab world who had been repeatedly accused of “promoting and glorifying terrorism” by the security services. He was detained for the first time from 1994 to 1999, and arrested on 28 November 2002, with 11 other people, on charges of “conspiracy to commit terrorist acts” as a result of public statements that he made through the media. Tried by the State Security Court, he was acquitted on 27 December 2004. He was not released, however, but detained again for six months, from 27 December 2004 to 28 June 2005, at a secret detention facility (which later turned out to be the Headquarters of the General Intelligence Directorate, the Jordanian intelligence service), where he alleges that he was tortured. He was interviewed after his release by Al-Jazeera on 4 July 2005, when he condemned the military occupation of Iraq. Following the interview, he was again secretly detained on 5 July 2005.438 He was finally released on 12 March 2008.439 6. Libyan Arab Jamahiriya 233. In a visit to the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya in May 2009, representatives of Amnesty International noted that the Internal Security Agency (ISA) appeared to have unchecked powers in practice to arrest, detain and interrogate individuals suspected of dissent against the political 434 Human Rights Watch, “Double jeopardy: CIA renditions to Jordan”, 7 April 2008. Available from www.hrw.org/en/node/62264. 435 A/HRC/4/33/Add.3, para. 16, footnote 4. 436 Ibid., appendix, para. 15. 437 “Jordan”, Amnesty International report 2009, available from http://thereport.amnesty.org/en/regions/middle-east-north-africa/jordan. 438 439 Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, opinion No. 18/2007 (A/HRC/10/21/Add.1). Alkarama for Human Rights press release, 13 March 2008, available from http://en.alkarama.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=70:jordan-m-issam-aluteibi-sheikh-almaqdisi-liberated-on-march-12-2008&catid=24:communiqu&Itemid=120.