Jordan arrested a senior Muslim Brotherhood figure over his op-ed piece criticising the United Arab Emirates for designating the Islamist organisation as a terrorist group, the group’s spokesman said on Friday .
According to the spokesman, Murad Adaileh, the Brotherhood’s deputy secretary-general Zaki Bani Irsheid was taken into custody by security forces late on Tursday after a meeting at the group’s headquarters in Amman’s Abdali neighbourhood.