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The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights urged Jordan on Friday to release twelve political prisoners detained without due process since February. “We are concerned by the continued detention in Jordan of peaceful activists arrested in February and March under the Law of Crime Prevention and the Cybercrime Prevention Law, in what appears to be part of a deliberate campaign to silence dissent,” UN Human Rights spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani wrote in statement on Friday. The UN body highlighted that those detained did not have “effective access to due process and fair …