{UAH} Abu Hamza — Let me off the hook in a British jail

Frank Mujabi/ Afuwa/Mayimuna/Edward Mo Irundrua,

I dont know if you remember Abu Hamza? This was the fire-breathing preacher of hate- the most radical of the Islamic preachers the UK has ever known. Even his fellow muslims expelled him when he turned the Finsbury Park Mosque in north London as the European Centre for Islamic terrorism. Nearly all British suicide bombers were tutored and instructed at the Finsbury Park Mosque by Abu Hamza

Abu Hamza was deported to the USA after a long legal battle and was tried and sentenced to life imprisonment wihthout parole. He is now kept in solitary confinement, is not allowed contact with any other human being, except his own guards, and his famous hook has also been removed from him, incase he uses it to commit suicide.

Abu Hamze now claims he has refomed- that he is no longer the radical that he was. He now says suicide bombing was wrong, and that he wants to be released so that he can deliver a new message to muslims- a message of peace and not violence. Failing this, he is asking that he be allowed to return to the UK, to serve his sentence in a UK jail, probably at Belmarsh High Security Jail  in Woolwich where he also served many years when he was under British custody. He says Belmarsh is paradise, compared to an American jail.

But should Abu Hamza be shown any mercy or sympathy? Remember, this is the man who trained and instructed the 7/7 bombers who murdered over 28 people on the London underground.

Bobby

Abu Hamza — Let me off the hook in a British jail

The hate preacher has begun a legal appeal to be freed from an 'inhuman' US prison

Dipesh Gadher

December 17 2017, 12:01am, The Sunday Times

After his extradition, Abu Hamza was given a life sentence for terrorism offences in New YorkSCOTT BARBOUR

Abu Hamza, the hook-handed former imam of Finsbury Park mosque, has launched an attempt to be freed from America's most secure prison — and his lawyers say he would return to a British jail "in a second" if he could.

The hate preacher argues that his long-term incarceration at ADX Florence "supermax" prison in Colorado is "inhuman and degrading" and breaches his human rights.

Court papers seen by The Sunday Times give the first detailed insight into his circumstances after he was given a life sentence for terrorism offences in New York. Since October 2015, the preacher has been kept in solitary confinement in a special unit at ADX Florence under measures that prevent him from having contact with much of the outside world.

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