Jordan arrests deputy head of Muslim Brotherhood for criticising UAE
Jordan arrested the deputy head of the country's Muslim Brotherhood on Thursday for criticising the UAE's move to designate the Islamist political movement and its local affiliates a terrorist group, official sources said.
Zaki Bani Rushaid was detained shortly after a late night meeting at the party's headquarters in Amman, these people said, marking the first arrest of a major political opposition figure in Jordan in recent years.
The state security prosecutor general ordered his arrest on charges of "souring relations with a friendly country" after he wrote an opinion column attacking the Gulf state's role in a regional crackdown on political Islam, the sources said.
