2024-07-30 12:41:02
Radical preacher Anjem Choudary, an activist in the Islamist group in the United Kingdom, was sentenced on Tuesday July 30 to life imprisonment for leading “Terrorist Organization” has been banned and linked to several deadly attacks in recent years. The sentence of this fifty-seven-year-old lawyer from Pakistan included a period of protection for twenty-eight years by Woolwich Crown Court in London, where he was sentenced a year after his arrest after a joint investigation by the United Kingdom. , United States and Canada.
Caught in the crosshairs of the authorities while fleeing prosecution, the 57-year-old lawyer of Pakistani origin first spent time in prison in the mid-2010s for supporting the Islamic State (IS) organization. Last week, Woolwich Crown Court in London found him guilty of having led the Al-Mouhajiroun (ALM) group since 2014, banned since 2010 in Britain.
Anjem Choudary has established himself as one of the first representatives of “Londonistan”, a radical Islamist group established in the British capital in the early 2000s. media by increasing exposure in front of mosques, embassies and police in the United Kingdom.
Calls to support the Islamic State organization
His ultimate goal, he said, was to fly the flag of Islam over 10 Downing Street, the residence of the British Prime Minister. However, thanks to his knowledge of the law, he was careful not to cross the red line of injustice until the mid-2010s.
In 2016, he was sentenced to five and a half years in prison for calling for support for ISIS in several videos posted on YouTube after pledging allegiance to its leader, Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi. He was released in October 2018 after serving half of his sentence, but remained under supervision for the remainder.
As soon as these measures are lifted, it resumes online profiling activities in a very active manner, according to the security services. In particular, he began speaking at the online forums of the Islamic Thinkers Society (ITS), based in New York but considered the American branch of ALM.
The representatives of the United States of America did not take these meetings seriously, which led to the arrest of the preacher in the early morning of July 17, 2023 at his home in the east of London. The investigation confirmed that Anjem Choudary took over the board of ALM in 2014, when its founder, Omar Bakri, another famous preacher, was imprisoned in Lebanon. Anjem Choudary confirmed during the trial that ITS “not available” and ALM was dissolved in 2004.
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