Jordan jails seven Brotherhood figures in donations case, with sentences open to appeal

Seven leaders and members of Jordan’s banned Muslim Brotherhood were convicted on Sunday 25 October in a case Jordanian media have called the “Gaza donations and money laundering” file. Murad al-Adayleh — described by Al Jazeera Arabic and the Foundation for Defense of Democracies as the group’s former General Supervisor, and by Middle East Monitor as its sitting one — and Tariq al-Raqab each received six months on the misdemeanour of collecting donations without a licence. Five others drew three years, among them the group’s financial chief Ahmad al-Zarqan; Al Jazeera Arabic names Aref Hamdan, Ibrahim Hijazi, Mohammed Alyan and Omar Yassin as the remainder. Two separate reports put the appeal window at 30 days from issuance, which falls around 24 November. Ayman Abu al-Rub, a member of parliament for the Umma Party, the successor vehicle to the Islamic Action Front, confirmed the rulings and said they were appealable — the only on-the-record Brotherhood-aligned reaction located.

The UAE daily Al Khaleej, reporting the court’s reasoning, said the judgment rested on written confessions by two prominent defendants during investigations and on proof that fundraising was conducted without the required official permits, with the use of donation funds assessed against anti-money-laundering and terrorism-financing provisions. That account comes through a state-aligned Gulf paper and should be read as the state’s case, not as an independent finding. The file dates to investigations opened after Jordan outlawed the Brotherhood on 23 April 2025 — Interior Minister Mazin al-Farrayeh announcing at a press conference in Amman that all activities linked to the group were prohibited — and after the seizure of its headquarters, properties and funds. Separately, Al Khaleej notes a July 2025 government announcement of an illegal Brotherhood financial network that had obtained around 30 million dinars by suspicious means. No source attaches that sum to these seven convictions.

Assessment: The instrument has changed. The 2025 cases were security prosecutions — four men jailed for 20 years over an alleged plot, nine more sentenced on 8 October 2025 to between three and fifteen years for training and financing said to have come from Lebanon. This one is financial and administrative, and the terms are measured in months. Short, appealable sentences against the political leadership do something a terrorism verdict cannot: they attach a laundering record to the men who would negotiate a return to licensed politics, without creating prisoners of conscience. Watch two things. The JD 30 million figure is a 2025 state allegation and will drift toward these verdicts in secondary coverage. And a reported acquittal of al-Adayleh on the laundering count rests on a single Brotherhood-aligned Egyptian outlet.