Anjem Choudary Guilty of Directing Terrorist Organisation

Published on July 23, 2024

Radical Islamist preacher Anjem Choudary has been convicted of directing a terrorist organisation and encouraging support for the group through online meetings. Choudary was found guilty at Woolwich Crown Court on Tuesday of having taken a “caretaker role” in directing Al-Muhajiroun since 2014. The organisation was proscribed in the UK in 2010, but prosecutors said it has continued to exist under other names. The 57-year-old from Illford in east London had given online lectures at the New York-based Islamic Thinkers Society—which prosecutors said was “the same” as Al-Muhajiroun—where he encouraged support for his organisation. An international investigation involving the cooperation of London’s Metropolitan Police, the New York Police Department (NYPD), and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police resulted in the arrests of Choudary and a Canadian national last year....

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