Prison fit in restricting change of preacher

800AM GMT twenty March 2010

Abu Qatada was once described as Osama bin Laden"s right-hand man in Europe Photo REUTERS

Judges ruled that movement taken to shorten the probable "malign influence" of Qatada, 49, at Long Lartin in Worcestershire was fit and proportionate.

Qatada, whose genuine name is Omar Othman and who was once dubbed Osama bin Laden"s right-hand man in Europe, was described as an ""iconic figure for jihadists"".

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He is between 6 Muslim general apprehension suspects who are unconvicted of any corruption but hold in a special detainee section at Long Lartin.

The high-profile detainees face extradition requests from alternative countries for purported militant offences but have launched authorised hurdles or cannot be deported given of the risk they will be tortured.

They embody Khalid Al-Fawwaz, 47, and Adel Abdel Bary, 49, who are both longed for by the US authorities for swindling to attempted attempted murder American adults in the synchronised bombings of US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam in Aug 1998.

Qatada faces jail in Jordan for terrorism but alleges his self-assurance was formed on justification extracted by torture.

On Thursday, Lord Justice Aikens, sitting with Mr Justice Openshaw, deserted hurdles to a preference by Long Lartin administrator Ferdie Parker, in Dec 2008, to shift the vital conditions for all the detainees after Qatada returned to the unit.

The outcome was to obstruct them to the section for all purposes, solely for health caring and family visits, and anathema them from blending with alternative prisoners.

Qatada came from Belmarsh Prison in south-east London, where he was indicted of attempting to "foment trouble" and inciting alternative prisoners to plea authority.

The Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) described Qatada as "an particular who preaches assault and seeks to radicalise his audience", the High Court heard.

Lord Justice Aikens pronounced the box was not an easy one, but in conclusion the justice ruled the governor"s preference was reasonable.

The decider spoken that a administrator of a high-security jail "must have a far-reaching discretion" with courtesy to Category A prisoners and those suspected of militant acts outward the UK, even if they were unconvicted.

The decider combined "Secondly, we accept that the key preference was the reappearance in the jail of Mr Othman.

"It is transparent that he can and could in Dec 2008 practice a assail shift on alternative Muslims, together with prisoners, and in particular, on receptive immature men, most of whom competence be receptive to his code of extremism."

The statute follows reports that in advance Muslim gangs are commanding a form of Islamic law in the jail, with non-Muslim inmates being forced to stop personification "Western music" and to take down cinema of women in their cells.

According to a former jail military officer interviewed by Radio 5 Live"s Donal MacIntyre Show on Sunday, younger prisoners were targeted for forced acclimatisation to Islam by the gangs.

Lord Justice Aikens pronounced the justice had resolved that one component in the preference to deliver the system of administration shift was "a fright of vicious comment" by the press and media about Qatada"s on all sides in the prison.

But that was not "the pushing force" at the back of the move to stop all the apprehension detainees carrying hit with alternative inmates.

John Howell QC, representing the administrator and Justice Secretary Jack Straw, argued that the move was reasonable, receptive and proportional and the detainees" human rights were being protected.

The judges deserted claims by human rights lawyers that the "sudden and dramatic" shift of system of administration in 2008 had led to "claustrophobic and depressing" conditions and was jagged and unjustified.

Tim Owen QC indicted the administrator of behaving inconsistently, irrationally and unwell in his avocation to take stairs to equivocate human rights violations.

One detainee, Syed Talha Ahsan, a 30-year-old British inhabitant from Tooting, south west London, is longed for in the US indicted of swindling to await terrorists by handling websites.

Al-Fawwaz initial came to the section in Aug 2007, Bary in Nov 2006 and Ahsan Jan 2007.

Other inmates at the section embody one who can usually be referred to as "U".

The 45-year-old faces allegations that he hold a comparison on all sides in a Mujahideen precision stay in Afghanistan and had approach links with bin Laden and alternative comparison al-Qaida figures.

Steve Chambers, a twin US-Jamaican inhabitant who reverted to Islam in prison, has been incarcerated there given Jan 2003 tentative extradition to the US on non-terrorist attempted attempted murder and firearms offences and has an interest tentative prior to the European Court of Human Rights.