Amman, June 21 (Petra) - Government Spokesperson and Minister of Government Communication Mohammad Al-Momani announced that authorities executed six convicts by hanging at dawn on Sunday, June 21, 2026.
The executions targeted individuals convicted of capital offenses falling under the jurisdiction of the State Security Court. Al-Momani confirmed that the death sentences were carried out after attaining absolute finality and exhausting all requisite constitutional and statutory legal procedures. The processing occurred under the direct oversight of the Attorney General of the State Security Court, in application of Article 359 of the Criminal Procedure Code.
Official records detail the specific security and anti-narcotics operations tied to each convict: The 2018 Salt Terrorist Cell The death penalty was executed against Mahmoud Nayef Mousa and Anas Anwar Adel Saleh. The two individuals were convicted of orchestrating and executing a coordinated terrorist cell operation in Salt in 2018. The assault resulted in the deaths of six security personnel: Lieutenant Colonel Moath Khamis Al-Damani, Warrant Officer Ali Adnan Qawqazah, Sergeant Hisham Abdul Rahman Al-Aqarbah, Corporal Mohammad Ahmad Bani Yassin, Corporal Mohammad Khaled Al-Hayajneh, and Corporal Ahmad Idris Al-Zoubi.
The 2022 Al-Dalabeeh Assassination The sentence was carried out against Ibrahim Mansour Mohammad, who was convicted of a localized terrorist attack in late 2022 that claimed the life of Brigadier General Abdul Razzaq Al-Dalabeeh.
Fatal Resistance to Anti-Narcotics Enforcement The final three executions involved high-level narcotics traffickers who utilized lethal force against public safety officers during targeted law enforcement raids: Hamzeh Mahmoud Mansour, a convicted drug trafficker, was executed for opening fire on security personnel during an enforcement operation in 2014, an encounter that resulted in the death of Corporal Hosam Taleb Al-Abadi.
Khaled Assaf Fayez, also a convicted narcotics dealer, faced execution following a 2017 armed confrontation where his violent resistance to an anti-drug task force led to the death of Warrant Officer Mohammad Salameh Al-Saqarat.
Ihab Maher Kamal was executed for using armed resistance against officers enforcing the Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances Law during a 2018 raid, which resulted in the death of First Lieutenant Ahmad Khaled Al-Rawahneh.
//Petra// AA
