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Hamzah
Crown prince, 1999–2004
Crown prince, 1999–2004
On 3 April 2021, Jordanian authorities arrested 19 people, including Prince Hamzah, who was put under house arrest.[1] Arrests also included the prince's chief of staff and other figures associated with him, in addition to a member of the royal family, Sharif Hassan bin Zaid, and Bassem Awadallah, former Chief of the Royal Hashemite Court and Jordan's former envoy to Saudi Arabia.
Hamzah is the son of the late King Hussein and the half-brother of the current king, Abdullah II. He was the country's crown prince from the death of his father in 1999 until he was stripped of his position by his half-brother the king in 2004.