Nazia Ahmad: 'This should not have taken eight years of incarceration without charge'
Tuesday 10 April 2012
Nazia Ahmad, 27, younger sister of Babar Ahmad, was 18 when her brother was taken away to prison. He has been there ever since. Now, having just turned 27, she is still yet to see him charged with any offence. Her main question is not whether he should face trial, but why it has taken this long.
Court rejects claims that extraditing Abu Hamza to the US would breach his human rights
Tuesday 10 April 2012
Radical Islamic preacher Abu Hamza and four other terrorism suspects can be lawfully extradited to the USA, human rights judges ruled today.
BBC Breakfast's new studio branded 'garish'
Tuesday 10 April 2012
BBC Breakfast's first broadcast from Salford has left some of its viewers unhappy with the show's new-look "garish" studio.
Christina Patterson: Even bad people have rights
Wednesday 08 February 2012
He doesn't have a hook. He does have a big bushy beard, and eyes that don't look all that friendly, but Omar Mahmoud Othman, who's also known as Abu Qatada, doesn't have a hook. It's Mustafa Kamel Mustafa, who's also known as Abu Hamza, who has a hook instead of a hand.
Internet 'fuels' radical Islam
Monday 06 February 2012
The internet plays a greater role in the violent radicalisation of Muslims than time spent in prisons and mosques, a group of MPs reported today.
Ian Burrell: We should listen to moderate Muslims rather than ‘Mad Mullahs’
Monday 28 March 2011
So-called Mad Mullahs are never short of coverage in the British media but when the head of the Londonbased Islamic Sharia Councilwas recently exposed for supporting the decriminalisation of rape within marriage it wasn’t Fleet Street which broke the story.
Posters declare 'Fatwa' on May
Friday 28 January 2011
Scotland Yard was investigating today after several posters declared a "fatwa" against Home Secretary Theresa May.
Preacher Abu Hamza wins UK passport appeal
Friday 05 November 2010
Preacher Abu Hamza has won his appeal against the Government's attempts to strip him of his British passport, a special tribunal ruled today.
Diary: Odds-on as the nation's most toxic family unit
Monday 01 November 2010
A frantic week on the celebrity kith and kin front prompts this reality TV proposal to Endemol. Nuclear Families (© M Norman) is the primetime contest to find Britain's most toxically radioactive clan ... and given the four contenders in Series One, the mirth should have a very long half-life indeed.
Abu Hamza 'stateless' if passport bid fails
Tuesday 19 October 2010
Lawyers for hate preacher Abu Hamza today argued he should keep his British passport because he has been stripped of his Egyptian nationality.
Public Enemies: The UK's 'Most Hated' list
Saturday 28 August 2010
Muslims 'being turned into terrorists in jail'
Friday 27 August 2010
Britain faces a "new wave" of home-grown terrorist attacks led by up to 800 Muslim ex-prisoners who have been radicalised by jihadists while serving their sentences, a think-tank has warned.
A tour of the jail within a jail that houses Britain's most dangerous convicts
Saturday 31 July 2010
European court halts 'terror' extraditions to US
Friday 09 July 2010
The extradition of a British man held without trial for six years has been halted after European judges raised concerns about the harsh conditions of detention in America's high-security prisons. Babar Ahmad, a 36-year-old computer expert, is the longest serving prisoner held without charge or trial in the UK, refused bail since his arrest in August 2004 on a US extradition warrant.








