Abu Qatada
| Abu Qatada Al-Filistini (the Palestinian) أبو قتادة الفلسطيني |
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Omar Mahmoud Othman 1960 (age 56–57) Bethlehem, Jordan-occupied West Bank |
| Other names | Abu Omar |
| Citizenship | Jordanian |
| Known for | Alleged links with terrorism, imprisonment without trial |
Abu Qatada al-Filistini (
pronunciation AH-boo kah-TAH-dah;Arabic: أبو قتادة الفلسطيني, ’Abū Qatāda al-Filisṭīnī [the Palestinian]), born Omar Mahmoud Othman (Arabic: عمر بن محمود بن عثمان ‘Umar ibn Maḥmūd ibn ‘Uṯmān) in 1959/1960, is a Salafi cleric and Jordanian national. Qatada was accused of having links to terrorist organizations, and frequently imprisoned in the United Kingdom without formal charges or prosecution before being deported to Jordan, where courts found him innocent of multiple terrorism charges.
Qatada was repeatedly imprisoned and released in the United Kingdom after he was first detained under anti-terrorism laws in 2002, but was not prosecuted for any crime. The Algerian government described Abu Qatada as being involved with Islamists in London and possibly elsewhere. After initially barring the United Kingdom from deporting Abu Qatada to Jordan, in May 2012 the European Court of Human Rights denied him leave to appeal against deportation without specifying a reason.
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