A Saudi student in Jordan has been forced to cut short his studies after being robbed at knife and sword-point near a service station on the Amman to Al-Qariyat road and then threatened when he took the case to court. Abdullah Al-Ghamdi and two companions were accosted by two persons and forced to accompany them to a nearby house where they were robbed of money, mobile telephones and other property. According to Al-Ghamdi, he immediately reported the incident to the Saudi Embassy in Amman and lodged a complaint with police, but when the case went to court he found himself confronted by seven persons who, he said, threatened him if he pursued the case. “I was forced to abandon my studies and come back to Saudi Arabia,” he said. The embassy in Jordan has appointed a lawyer to pursue Al
