Jordan announced on Wednesday it was banning the activities of the Muslim Brotherhood, a transnational Islamist movement, accusing it of manufacturing and stockpiling weapons and planning to destabilise the kingdom.
The move comes after authorities said they arrested 16 people, including members of the Brotherhood, over an alleged sabotage plot.
"It has been decided to ban all activities of the so-called Muslim Brotherhood and to consider any activity (carried out by it) a violation of the provisions of the law," Interior Minister Mazen al-Faraya told reporters.
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