Nearly a decade after serving time for a number of terrorist charges, the hate preacher and cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri has begun a new application to return to the United Kingdom.
“Come back home to his family where he belongs” is the message that the terrorist’s wife is trying to convey to the American maximum security prison where her husband is currently incarcerated.
Playing with ease After being extradited from the United Kingdom, where he served as an imam at the Finsbury Park mosque in north London, Hamza was incarcerated in 2015 for a number of terror-related charges.
He has been held in solitary confinement for eight years at the ADX Florence “supermax” prison in Colorado. His second wife, Najat Chaffe, has petitioned a judge in New York to allow his release to the United Kingdom.
His intention is to challenge the conviction, he stated.
Last month, she expressed her growing desire for his return in a letter that was viewed by The Sunday Telegraph.
“It would be an absolute blessing to see him reunited with our cherished grandkids and to relish in some much-needed family time.”
The Egyptian priest was convicted of inciting violence in 2006 and sentenced to imprisonment in the UK. Following his 2012 conviction on eleven charges of terrorism, he was extradited to the United States.
This is hardly Hamza’s first battle with the British government.
The “inhuman and degrading” conditions at ADX Florence were the subject of his 2017 complaint, in which he asserted a violation of his human rights.
According to The Sunday Times, he was “confined within a cell-sized cage” during his allotted hour of recreation time each day, according to court documents presented under his true name, Mostafa Kamel Mostafa.
It went on to say that the blind double amputee’s cell isn’t fit for him, and that “the stumps in both arms are subject to regular outbreaks of infection, which have been increasing in severity.”
In the 242-page appeal, it was said that while Hamza was fighting extradition in Belmarsh maximum security prison, he could interact with other prisoners and see a doctor or nurse up to five times a week.
His legal team claimed that ADX Florence’s treatment of him violated the Human Rights Act’s prohibition of torture and other cruel, humiliating, or degrading punishments (Article 3).
“He would go back to Belmarsh in a second if he could,” said Michael Bachrach, one of his appeal lawyers, according to the newspaper.
He said is was his law firm’s belief is that the conditions of his confinement ran counter to the expectations of the European Convention on Human Rights and the commitments that the US government made to the [British and European] courts during the extradition procedure, according to Mr. Bachrach, an expert in terrorism cases.
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