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| Anjem Choudary arrives at Southwark Police Station, south London, answering his bail. |
Radical preacher Anjem Choudary launched a 20 minute court monologue protesting his innocence after being charged with a terror offence for the first time.
The controversial cleric said he would be pleading that David Cameron, the police and the courts are the guilty ones after being accused of inviting support for the terror group Isil.
The 48-year-old claimed his arrest and charge was a “political manoeuvre to silence Muslim voices” and insisted he would defend himself in court.
Choudary appeared before Westminster Magistrates along with co-accused Mohammed Mizanur Rahman, 32.
The pair allegedly encouraged Muslims to obey the so-called Islamic State as a caliphate in online messages despite it being a banned terrorist organisation.
It is believed to be the first time Choudary has been charged with a terrorism offence. » | Tom Whitehead, Security Editor | Wednesday, August 5, 2015
