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The British-Pakistani pastor was beforehand jailed in 2016 for encouraging help for ISIL (ISIS).
British Muslim preacher Anjem Choudary has been sentenced to life in jail for main a “terrorist organisation”.
Choudary, 57, was convicted final week of main al-Muhajiroun (ALM), which was banned as a “terrorist organisation” greater than a decade in the past.
Choose Mark Wall advised Choudary at Woolwich Crown Court docket in London on Tuesday that organisations akin to ALM had been “normalising violence in help of an ideological trigger” by means of on-line conferences.
“Their existence provides people who’re members of them the braveness to commit acts they won’t in any other case do. They drive wedges between individuals who in any other case might and would dwell in peaceable coexistence,” he mentioned.
Wall introduced a life sentence for the British-Pakistani preacher, with a minimal sentence of 28 years earlier than he could be eligible for parole.
Prosecutor Tom Little mentioned Choudary turned the “appearing emir” of ALM after chief Omar Bakri Mohammed was jailed in Lebanon in 2014.
Choudary’s lawyer, Paul Hynes, argued that the group was “little greater than a shell of an organisation” and that nearly the entire assaults linked to it had already taken place.
Muslim preacher Anjem Choudary addresses members of the media throughout a protest in help of Islamic legislation in north London on October 31, 2009 (Tal Cohen/Reuters)
Police in Britain, the US and Canada performed a joint investigation and gathered proof that Choudary was operating and directing ALM by means of on-line lectures to followers in New York.
Prosecutors mentioned the group operated beneath a number of names, together with the New York-based Islamic Thinkers Society, which Choudary has spoken with.
The Islamic Thinkers Society was the U.S. chapter of ALM, mentioned New York Metropolis Deputy Police Chief Rebecca Weiner, who referred to as the case historic.
Choudary was convicted together with one in every of his followers, Khaled Hussein, who prosecutors mentioned was a loyal supporter of the group.
Hussein, 29, of Edmonton, Canada, was convicted of membership in a proscribed group and sentenced to 5 years in jail.
The 2 had been arrested a 12 months in the past after Hussein landed at Heathrow Airport.
Choudary was beforehand jailed in 2016 for encouraging help for ISIL (ISIS). He was launched in 2018 after serving half of his five-and-a-half-year sentence.
The ALM group, which emerged within the late Nineteen Nineties, has been linked to a number of assaults at dwelling and overseas.
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