By: Sarwar Alam
Britain’s security services are preparing for the release of a radical Islamist imam from jail later this year, fearing heightened community tensions. UK-born Anjem Choudary who was jailed at the Old Bailey court in London in September 2016 for radical preaching and urging Muslims to support the terrorist group Islamic State (ISIS), is expected to be released on licence, or under surveillance, in October. The 51-year-old is reportedly being held in a “separation centre” at Her Majesty’s Prison (HMP) Frankland in County Durham, with the release expected at the half-way mark of his five-and-a-half-year prison sentence. “It is likely to…
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