Mobile UPI  |   About UPI  |   UPI en Español  |   UPI Arabic  |   UPIU  |   My Account
Search:
Go

Abu Qatada must stay in British jail

|
|
 
  
Published: Dec. 2, 2008 at 10:04 AM

LONDON, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- Extremist Muslim cleric Abu Qatada will remain in a British jail indefinitely after allegedly breaking the terms of his earlier bail, officials said.

Abu Qatada, sometimes described as Osama bin Laden's "right-hand man in Europe," was incarcerated last month after being released in June from a high-security prison. On Tuesday, Britain's Special Immigration Appeals Commission ruled the cleric was a flight risk and so he will remain in Belmarsh prison, The Times of London reported.

The SIAC made its ruling after British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith indicated that security officials had assessed that the risk of Abu Qatada leaving the country had increased since his June release from the Long Lartin maximum security jail in Worcestershire, England, the newspaper said.

Justice John Mitting said in court Tuesday, "The commission revokes bail and directs that Mohammad Ofman (Abu Qatada's real name) be detained under immigration powers."

Topics: Abu Qatada, Osama bin Laden
Recommended Stories
© 2008 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Any reproduction, republication, redistribution and/or modification of any UPI content is expressly prohibited without UPI's prior written consent.

Order reprints
  
Join the conversation
Most Popular Collections
Notable deaths of 2012 Scripps National Spelling Bee AmfAR Cinema Against AIDS gala
Indianapolis 500 Presidential Medal of Freedom Memorial Day around the nation
Additional Top News Stories
1 of 27
Snigdha Nandipati of San Diego wins Finals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee
View Caption
Snigdha Nandipati of San Diego, California watches confetti rain down as she wins the two-day Scripps National Spelling Bee championship, May 31, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Nandipati successfully spelled the word .* guetapens *, meaning to lure or ambush. UPI/Mike Theiler
fark
Photoshop this power tower technician
Driving drunk and unlicensed, with a kid not even buckled let alone in a safety seat, en route to...
Man killed in Spencer fire. The lava lamps must have ignited the blacklight posters
Passenger jet crashes into apartment building in Nigerian capitol. Over 150 princes, bank officials,...
I'll see your zombie apocalypse, and raise you "swarms of deadly spiders" invading a town in India...
Photoshop this woman at the wheel