The Jordanian Interior Ministry said the Islamist opposition group had been linked to a sabotage plot. The group has operated legally for decades, though it is banned in other Arab countries.PoliticsJordan
The Jordanian Interior Ministry said the Islamist opposition group had been linked to a sabotage plot. The group has operated legally for decades, though it is banned in other Arab countries.
The Muslim Brotherhood, which is banned in many Arab countries, has operated legally in Jordan for decades.
The Jordanian Interior Ministry outlawed the Muslim Brotherhood, the country’s most prominent opposition group, on Wednesday, closing its offices and confiscating its assets.
Interior Minister Mazen al-Faraya said the decision was a response to a sabotage plot to which a son of one of the group’s leaders had been linked and would take immediate effect.
“It has been decided to ban all activities of the so-called Muslim Brotherhood and to consider any [of its] activity a violation of the provisions of the law,” Faraya said, adding that any promoters of the group’s ideology would be held accountable by law.
“It has been proven that members of the group operate in the dark and engage in activities that could destabilize the country,” read an Interior Ministry statement.
“Members of the dissolved Muslim Brotherhood have tampered with security and national unity, and disrupted security and public order.”
The ban extends to anything that is published by the group.
Following the announcement, police surrounded and searched the party’s headquarters in the capital,
Amman. DW
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