Britain is set to impose curbs on organisations linked to Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood and block its activists from moving to london after a report by a senior diplomat raised concerns over the group’s links to extremists.
Prime Minister David Cameron had asked John Jenkins, the ambassador to Saudi Arabia, to compile a dossier on the Muslim Brotherhood after Gulf allies put pressure on the Government to curtail the movement’s london-based operations, The Telegraph reported. A lobbying campaign by Gulf states angry at the Muslim Brotherhood’s role in the Arab Spring has seen several of its senior figures forced to leave Qatar in recent days.
Egypt and Saudi Arabia have spearheaded diplomatic pressure on host Governments to shut down Muslim Brotherhood operations in Qatar, london and Istanbul.
Officials privy to the drafting of Jenkin’s report said it had been handed over to Downing Street and a statement on its findings would be published before the end of the year.