Wed 23 Apr 2025

Jordan has banned the activities of members of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Jordanian Interior Minister Mazen Fraya announced on Wednesday.


Authorities have also decided to close all their offices throughout the country. The decision would take immediate effect, officials said.

Jordanian authorities outlawed the Muslim Brotherhood, the country's most vocal opposition group, and confiscated its assets after members of the group were found to be linked to a sabotage plot, the minister said.

There was no immediate comment from the movement, which has operated legally in Jordan for decades and has widespread grass-roots support in major urban centres and scores of offices across the country.


Fraya said all the activities of the group would be banned and anyone promoting its ideology would be held accountable by law.


The ban includes publishing anything by the group and closure and confiscation of all its offices and property, he added.

Opponents of the Brotherhood, which is outlawed in most Arab countries, say it is a dangerous terrorist group which must be crushed. The movement says it publicly renounced violence decades ago and pursues an Islamist vision using peaceful means.

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