{{Infobox person | name = Hakem Al-Fayez | image = File:هذه صورة لجدي 2014-01-04 18-27.jpg | caption = Hakem Al-Fayez | occupation = | years_active = | title = | successor = | children = [[Hind Al-Fayez]] | relatives = [[Mithqal Al Fayez]] (grandfather) }}
'''Hakem Sultan Al-Fayez''' ({{langx|ar|حاكم الفايز}}) (1932 – 6 December 2013) was a Jordanian political activist. He was a member of the Jordanian and Syrian Branch of the [[Ba'ath Party]]. He was jailed in Syria for 23 years after [[Hafez al-Assad]] took over power in a coup d'état.
Fayez was born in 1932.<ref name="Imady 2023 p. 43">{{cite book | last=Imady | first=O. | title=An Inside Story of Modern Syria: The Unauthorised Biography of a Damascene Reformer | publisher=Pen and Sword | year=2023 | isbn=978-1-5267-8049-2 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PqOzEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA43 | access-date=2023-10-30 | page=43}}</ref> Fayez moved to [[Damascus]], [[Syria]] and lived there for several years. He was arrested after the [[Hafez al-Assad#1970 coup d'état|coup d'état]] by [[Hafez al-Assad]] in November 1970. At the time of his arrest he was member of the [[Ba'ath Party (Syrian-dominated faction)#National Command|National Command]] of the Ba'ath Party and considered a supporter of [[Salah Jadid]].<ref name="Abu-HamadWhitley1992">{{cite book|author1=Aziz Abu-Hamad|author2=Andrew Whitley|title=Throwing Away the Key: Indefinite Political Detention in Syria|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FQwqq3clZ0MC&pg=PA59|year=1992|publisher=Human Rights Watch|isbn=978-1-56432-087-2|pages=59–}}</ref> He then spent over twenty years in [[Mezzeh prison]], being released in 1993.<ref name=ammon>{{cite web|author= |url=http://en.ammonnews.net/article.aspx?articleno=23769#.U38Kq_l_vNs |title=Political activist Hakem Fayez laid to rest |publisher=Ammon News |date=8 December 2013 |accessdate=23 May 2014}}</ref> Syrian American scholar [[Omar Imady]] stated that the sole reason for Fayez his imprisonment was his support for [[Nureddin al-Atassi]].<ref name="Imady 2023 p. 43"/>
Fayez then returned to Jordan. After the [[Bombing of Iraq (1998)|bombing of Iraq]] by the United States and the United Kingdom in 1998 Fayez headed the Jordanian National Mobilisation Committee for the Defense of Iraq (NMCDI) after the previous head, Sulayman Arar, died.<ref name=ammon/><ref name="Lynch2013">{{cite book|author=Marc Lynch|title=Voices of the New Arab Public: Iraq, al-Jazeera, and Middle East Politics Today|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4fAN9HCA9uMC&pg=RA1-PT269|date=20 August 2013|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=978-0-231-50881-0|pages=109–110}}</ref> The NMCDI sought support amongst Arabs to cease the existing embargo against Iraq. It further sponsored peaceful protests, conferences and visiting speakers.<ref name="Lynch2013"/>
Fayez wished to stand candidate in the [[2003 Jordanian general election|2003 elections]] for the House of Representatives. However, his candidateship was rejected by the Central Elections Committee on the grounds that he did not stand candidate in the right district. As a [[Bedouin]] from the Central Badia District he needed to compete there, in line with the quota. Fayez appealed the decision, saying he was a Jordanian citizen with the right to compete in any district he wanted. He also found the quota to be degrading.<ref>{{cite web|author=Sana Abdallah |url=http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Security-Industry/2003/05/21/Jordan-launches-elections-campaign/UPI-65511053537384/ |title=Jordan launches elections campaign |publisher=United Press International |date=21 May 2003 |accessdate=23 May 2014}}</ref>
He had five children, three sons and two daughters. His daughter [[Hind al-Fayez]] was elected to the House of Representatives for the Central Badia district Women's Quota in the [[Jordanian parliamentary election results, 2013|2013 elections]].<ref name=ammon/>
== See also ==
* [[Mithqal Al Fayez]] * [[Al-Fayez]]
==References== {{Reflist}}
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