Date of source: Saturday, February 8, 2003
Egyptian Islamist Adel Abdel-Megied Abdel-Bari, who is accused in the case of bombing the two American embassies in East Africa in 1998, collapsed after he had been on a hunger strike for six weeks in Belmarch prison in southern London.
Date of source: Monday, November 22, 2004
Legal documents pertaining the latest court session in the trial of Ahmed Abdel Sattar, the legal assistant of the spiritual leader of the Egyptian banned group of the Gama’a Al-Islamiya revealed a strong security cooperation between the US’s FBI and UK’s Scotland Yard obtained by Asharq Al-Awsat...
Date of source: Wednesday, April 24, 2002
A British court will decide on May 10 about the American demand to deport an Algerian fundamentalist to the USA. He is accused to be the mastermind of the attempt to bomb Los Angeles International Airport in 2000 and of having relations with Al-Qa´ida. Another case is the trial of the director...
Date of source: Wednesday, March 13, 2002
The Old Bailey Court in London extended holding the Egyptian fundamentalist Yasser Al-Serry, the manager of the Islamic Media Observatory in London. The lawyer of another Egyptian fundamentalist in Canada raised a big surprise in the Federal Court of Toronto when he announced his withdrawal from...
Date of source: Monday, November 8, 2004
The British body responsible for prisons said it would soon build a mosque with a minaret and a dome inside the heavily-guarded Belmarsh prison in southwestern London, which houses a number of fundamentalist leaders. The step is meant to offer the chance for Muslim prisoners to observe their...
Date of source: Wednesday, May 12, 2004
In a long message leaked from the Belmarch Prison in southeast London, Muslim fundamentalist Abu Qatada Al-Falastini [the Palestinian], praised Ayman Al-Zawahry and described him as “the sage of the Islamic movement.” Abu Qatada responded to criticism directed against Al-Zawahry written by Montaser...
Date of source: Friday, June 4, 2004
The court hearings of the American demand that Abu Hamza Al-Masry be handed over to them is taking place this week in a British court. The official hearing will take place on the 23rd of July. It has been stated that the FBI filed a case against Al-Masry by using information divulged by prison...
Date of source: Thursday, June 17, 2004
Moddather Arani, lawyer of the former imam of Finsburry Park, Abu Hamza Al-Masry, complained of harassment faced by her client at Belmarch prison. She said that six members of his family planned to visit him in prison yesterday for the first time since his arrest, but received a phone call from the...
Date of source: Monday, January 31, 2005
The family of Abu Hamza al-Masrī has stated that the administration of Belmarsh Prison in south west London has confiscated his two hooks and kept him in solitary confinement, where his human rights are being violated.
Date of source: Friday, January 28, 2005
British Prime Minister Tony Blair promised yesterday that the United Kingdom would hold only a few people under house arrest according to the new emergency powers sought to fight terrorism in the country.