The demonstrators also called for the dissolution of the lower house of Parliament and the abrogation of the peace treaty with Israel, witnesses said.

The protests were arranged despite Thursday’s general amnesty that was decreed by King Abdallah and pardoned about 4,000 prisoners.

The largest protest took place in Tafileh, 180 km south of Amman, where people demonstrated for the fourth week in a row to press their demand for the resignation of the government.

Participants shouted slogans and raised placards expressing disapproval of the outcome of the panels set up so far to adopt political and economic reforms.

“The people want to topple the government because it lacks willingness to carry out the required reforms,” one slogan said.

Opposition parties this week rejected a new draft election law that was worked out by the National Dialogue Committee, saying the document stopped short of adopting the principle of proportional representation.

Demonstrations were also reported in Karak and Thiban, where participants urged Bakhit’s stepping down for his failure to fight corruption and adopt the required reforms.

In Amman, scores mainly belonging to the Islamic Action Front and affiliated activists, demonstrated in front of the State Security Court premises in the Marka neighborhood.

They urged the cancellation of the military tribunal that passed verdicts on hundreds of extremists and suspected terrorists over the past years.

They shouted slogans considering the court as a restriction on the freedom of the people.

Participants also urged the release of Ahmed Dakamseh, a Jordanian soldier currently serving life imprisonment after he was condemned by the SSC for shooting to death seven Israeli schoolgirls on a field trip in the Jordan Valley in 1997.