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| Radical preacher Anjem Choudary released from custody | Radical preacher Anjem Choudary released from custody |
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| Radical preacher Anjem Choudary has been released from police custody after being arrested on suspicion of being a member of a banned terrorist group. | |
| He was one of nine men held on Thursday as part of a Met Police inquiry into Islamist-related terrorism. | He was one of nine men held on Thursday as part of a Met Police inquiry into Islamist-related terrorism. |
| Mr Choudary, 47, was released on police bail after being questioned at Southwark Police Station in London. | |
| He is the former UK head of the Islamist group al-Muhajiroun or Islam4UK, which was banned in 2010. | |
| Speaking to the BBC, Mr Choudary said he had been released on police bail to return in January. | |
| His bail restrictions include a ban on foreign travel and public preaching. | |
| Brother released | |
| He described his arrest as "politically motivated", in order to silence him on the eve of the Parliamentary vote on military intervention in Iraq. | |
| Mr Choudary said he had been questioned about organisations that he was formerly involved with before they were banned under terrorism legislation. His brother was released alongside him. | |
| The nine arrested men, aged between 22 and 51, were being held at police stations in central London. | |
| They were detained during raids on 18 premises in London and one in Stoke-on-Trent. | |
| The arrests were carried out by Scotland Yard's Counter Terrorism Command (SO15). |