Qatada – what a difference a day makes
Theresa May has just tried to make the best of a bad job in the Commons, dragged back to answer questions about a new deportation process she launched on Tuesday only to see it stuck on the dockyard slips.
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As Abu Qatada is released from jail, British followers of the radical cleric post online sermons calling Britons “enemies of Allah” and lauding the preacher in the same breath as Osama bin Laden.
Muslim cleric Abu Qatada is set to be released from Long Lartin prison in Worcestershire. He will wear an electronic tag and is banned from using the internet or telephone.
Downing Street is considering a temporary withdrawal from the European Convention on Human Rights so that Abu Qatada can be deported. But legal experts tell Channel 4 News it is “highly unlikely”.
Ministers at the Home Office tried persuading Jordan to pardon the radical Islamic cleric, Abu Qatada, in their attempt to have him deported from the UK, a tribunal hears.
A cleric once described as Osama bin Laden’s right hand man in Europe is fighting deportation to Jordan where he claims evidence obtained by torture will be used against him.
Jordanian terror suspect Abu Qatada, who was once described as Osama bin Laden’s right-hand man in Europe, is denied bail because of security fears during the Olympic Games.
Did the Home Office ask the court when the deadline was? “Yes,” Mr Cameron replied.
Theresa May has just tried to make the best of a bad job in the Commons, dragged back to answer questions about a new deportation process she launched on Tuesday only to see it stuck on the dockyard slips.
Home Secretary Theresa May mounts a robust defence of the government’s latest bid to deport the terrorist suspect Abu Qatada.
Channel 4 News Political Editor Gary Gibbon blogs on the Abu Qatada deportation case
Home Secretary Theresa May visits Jordan to seek assurances that information obtained by torture would not be used against radical cleric Abu Qatada if he is deported from Britain.
Home Secretary Theresa May is to travel to Jordan to try and negotiate a way for the government to deport controversial Muslim cleric Abu Qatada.
The government seeks assurances from Jordan as it steps up its efforts to deport Islamist cleric Abu Qatada, who has been described as “Osama bin Laden’s right-hand man in Europe”.
Home Secretary Theresa May vows the government “will do everything” possible to deport Abu Qatada before the start of the Olympics, despite a senior judge’s decision to bail the radical Muslim cleric.
Abu Qatada, described as “Osama bin Laden’s right-hand man in Europe”, is granted the right to stay in the UK because he risks facing an unfair trial in Jordan.