British radical preacher Anjem Choudary protests his innocence in court Wednesday when he appeared on charges of inviting support for the Islamic State jihadist group.
The 48-year-old, who is regularly interviewed by British media for his views on Islam and the Middle East, and a second man, Mohammed Mizanur Rahman, 32, appears at Westminster Magistrates Court in London charged with inviting support for the Islamic State group, a banned organisation, between June 29, 2014 and March 6, 2015.
It is alleged that they invited support for IS in individual lectures which were subsequently published online.
Choudary, a former lawyer who is representing himself in court, waves his case notes around during his speech in the dock.
Both men were arrested on September 25 last year.
— AFP
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