Cleric Qatada given compensation - Democratic Underground

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Cleric Qatada given compensation

Source: BBC News

Radical preacher Abu Qatada has been awarded £2,500 in compensation by the European Court of Human Rights.

Judges ruled that his detention without trial in the UK under anti-terrorism powers breached his human rights.

After his arrest last year, he was held under a 22-hour home curfew and later detained in Belmarsh prison.

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The European Court also awarded pay-outs of between £1,500 and £3,400 to 10 other people who were detained in Britain following 9/11 on suspicion of providing support for extremists linked to al-Qaeda.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7898900.stm

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