"One of Amnesty International's most senior figures has been accused of multiple links to the Muslim Brotherhood, both through her husband, who was named in court papers as a British Islamist, and in her own right.
The allegations bring into question Amnesty's claim to be an impartial observer, and reignite accusations of Islamist sympathies.
Amnesty claims to have been unaware that the husband of Yasmin Hussein, its director of faith and human rights, featured in documents pertaining to a criminal trial conducted in the UAE. The documents revealed connections between British supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood and Arab Islamists accused of plotting to overthrow the Gulf state...
Amnesty has openly admitted to knowing about the trial and associated documents – it called for fair proceedings for the accused at the time – but claims that it had no idea that Ms Hussein and Mr Musabbeh were married.
That suggests that Ms Hussein contravened Amnesty's guidelines on disclosure of any links which may generate either a real or perceived conflict of interest with Amnesty's claims to be impartial...
The charity ploughed on nonetheless, working with former Guantanamo detainee Moazzam Begg and his organisation Cage, which has been repeatedly linked to Islamists and jihadists. It was a senior member of Cage who described Mohammed Emwazi – better known as ISIS's executioner Jihadi John – as 'extremely kind, extremely gentle, extremely soft spoken, [and] the most humble young person that I knew.'
It wasn't until March of this year, when those comments were made, that Amnesty finally distanced itself from Cage, saying 'Amnesty no longer considers it appropriate to share a public platform with Cage and will not engage in coalitions of which Cage is a member.'...
Some years earlier Amnesty had been rather more upfront about their reasons for working with Begg. 'Is "jihad in self-defense . . . antithetical to human rights?' Claudio Cordone, then Amnesty International's interim secretary-general rhetorically asked. 'Our answer is no.'"