{"id":9138,"date":"2018-10-19T15:37:32","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T15:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=9138"},"modified":"2018-10-19T15:37:45","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T15:37:45","slug":"radical-preacher-anjem-choudary-released-from-prison-early-this-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/radical-preacher-anjem-choudary-released-from-prison-early-this-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"Radical Preacher Anjem Choudary Released From Prison Early This Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In the early hours of this morning,\u00a0Anjem Choudary was released from prison. He is to serve the remainder of his sentence outside of prison.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He was sentenced to 5 and a half year in prison in 2016\u00a0for inviting support for the Islamic State group, and is set to spend the rest of his sentence under close supervision outside of bars.<\/p>\n<p>Choudary, from east London, once headed up the al-Muhajiroun network, which is a leading extremist group and was banned under terrorism laws. The killers off Lee Rigby were known to be associated with this network.<\/p>\n<p>The father-of-five did not organise terror attacks, but is considered one of the UK&#8217;s most prominent radicalisers.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s previously been described as a &#8220;hardened dangerous terrorist&#8221; and someone who has had a &#8220;huge influence on Islamist extremism in this country&#8221; by the former Met Police terror chief Richard Walton.<\/p>\n<p>There has been lots of anger and controversy surrounding his release, and many Britons are upset regarding it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"story-body__h1\"><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the early hours of this morning,\u00a0Anjem Choudary was released from prison. He is to serve the remainder of his sentence outside of prison.\u00a0 He was sentenced to 5 and a half year in prison in 2016\u00a0for inviting support for the Islamic State group, and is set to spend the rest of his sentence under&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","category-uk-news","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9139,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9138\/revisions\/9139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}