AFP - Young Jordanians continued Friday their camp on a place in Amman, despite an attack by a group of government supporters who made thirty wounded in the night, said a journalist from AFP.
Thirty members of "Young, 24 March," a bunch of different trends, including Islamists, were slightly injured in the attack and three of them were hospitalized, according to organizers.
Hundreds of youths had gathered Thursday on the spot "Jamal Abdel Nasser" where they had set up a camp to call the Jordanian regime to "reform" and "Judgement" corrupt leaders.
At nightfall, the police tried to disperse them, then cut the electrical current, which has about fifty supporters of power to attack by throwing stones. The police did not intervene, witnesses said.
Early Friday, dozens of loyalists have moved back to a few meters from the youth camp. At the sound of loud music and patriotic songs in honor of King Abdullah II, they were dancing in the middle of the avenue. No police presence was visible.
"They do everything to push us to leave.Yesterday (Thursday) we were attacked with stones, but we will not budge no matter what happens, "he told AFP Basraoui Saddam, a student of 21 years.
"Our gathering was peaceful, but this does not prevent us from being the target of attacks. The king agrees there such actions? We are citizens and we have the right to express ourselves", for his part Darwiche said Reda, also a student.
Another demonstration is planned Friday at the Islamists' call to demand reforms.
In Jordan, where demonstrations have been ongoing for three months, the oppposite Islamist and leftist movements and nationalist, did not call for regime change, but deep political reforms and end corruption.
