Radical Islamic preacher Anjem Choudhary, who has dual citizenship of Britain and Pakistan, has been sentenced to life imprisonment. He has been found guilty of running a terrorist organization, in which he has been sentenced to 28 years.
Anjem Chaudhry was found guilty of operating the banned terrorist organization Al-Muhajiroon (ALM) and propagating it through online medium. He founded this organization in 1996 and was working for the organization since then. To prevent the organization from being banned, he was operating it by changing its name.
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The terrorist organization was banned in 2006
The court said, “Organizations like yours normalize violence in search of ideological causes. They create rifts among people who live together peacefully.” ALM was first banned by Britain in 2006 for operating under the name Al Ghurba. In 2010, ALM was included in the ban as an alternative name.
The court found that Chaudhary was working for ALM till July 2023. He was identified while giving an online speech to an offshoot group called Islamic Thinkers Society, which was infiltrated by an undercover team. After this he was arrested.
Used to work for Islamic State
Pakistani and British citizen Anjem Choudhary was earlier found guilty in 2018 of soliciting support for the Islamic State terrorist organisation. In this case he was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment but was soon released. The court had granted him bail with some conditions but after the conditions expired, he again got involved in terrorist activities.
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In addition to Chaudhry’s life sentence, Khalid Hussain, a 29-year-old Canadian citizen who supported Chaudhry, was also sentenced to 5 years in prison and one year of post-release supervision.