599, The representative of the State party said, in his reply, that Jordan had permitted very large number6 of aliens to enter and to leave the country on going well beyond, the principle of the basis Of, and occasionally Under the law, any alien was entitled to appeal against an reciprocity. to seek redress expulsion order, and an expelled person was even entitled Jordan was ready and willing to extend all while present on foreign soil. fecilities to foreigners and, during the Gulf crisis, had demonstrated that willingness by welcoming over 1 million refugees from Iraq and Kuwait, to w&n extended visas had been granted and for whom humanitarian facilities had been Jordan was a member of the Arab League and as such was bound to provided. accord precedence to the employment of Arab professionals and experts. piaht to urivacy 600. With respect to that issue , members of the Committee wished to have ixformation on the circumstances prescribed by law in which postal and telegraphic correspondence and telephonic COnUiWiCations might be seiesd censored, and on the compatibility of such provisions with article 17 of Covenant. In addition, they wished to know whether there was any judicial control over the actions of the public prosecutor and whether the police permitted to use secret microphones in surveillance operations. more or the were 601. The representative of the State, in his response, said that telephonic conversations cou?.d be monitored and postal and telegraphic correspondence seized only where the public prosecutor considered it necessary to do SQ for the purpose of investigating a crime. &~Q&JR of thoyaht. c-d . reliarog . 602. With reference to that issue, members of the Committee asked for further information on relevant laws and practices including information on religious communities active in Jordan and their organieation: on the applicability of and on religious education. Shari& to non-Muslims; 603. The representative of the State party, in his reply, stated that freedom of religion was guaranteed to all citixens in his country. All questions relating to religion were dealt with by religious courts. Religious communities were free to carry out their own activities and the Shariah was not imposed on other groups. Religious conununities were also entitled to have their own schools. Freedom i4ldLmmt of -andI * Lo -racial or . orohibitlon.ofw relv 604. With reference to that issue, members of the Committee wished to know what limits were imposed by law to article 15 of the Constitution and what was meant by the reference in that article to exercise of control “over the sources of income of newspapers”r whether there had been any cases of arrest and detention for the expression of political vfewos: whether the Repression of Communism Act No. 31 of 1953 was still in force and what effects that Act had bad on the enjoyment of the rights set forth in article 19 of the Covenant; Whether there was pre-censorshipt whether licensing was still required in if so, what was the procedure: what formalities had to be fulfilled by foreign correspondents in order to work in Jordan: and whether such correspondents could move about the country freely. order to publish newspapers and, -147-