{"id":3260,"date":"2008-06-20T13:08:20","date_gmt":"2008-06-20T13:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2008\/06\/20\/cleric-loses-us-extradition-appeal\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T11:07:36","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T11:07:36","slug":"cleric-loses-us-extradition-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2008\/06\/20\/cleric-loses-us-extradition-appeal\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleric loses US extradition appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\"><b>Abu Hamza to face trial in America<\/b><\/p>\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"215\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"232\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"3\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/AbuHamza_232x180.jpg\"\/>MUSLIM cleric Abu Hamza has lost his high court battle against extradition to the US to face trial on terrorism charges.<\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The 49-year-old is currently serving a seven year sentence here in the UK for soliciting murder and inciting racial hatred. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Hamza is wanted in America on 11 charges. He is accused of attempting to set up an al-Qaeda training camp in Oregon, sending funds and recruits to the Taleban, as well as being involved in the taking hostage of 16 tourists in Yemen in December 1998. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The charges carry a potential jail sentence of 100 years. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>He now has 14 days to decide whether to launch a final appeal to the House of Lords against the decision.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>His lawyers had argued he could face detention in a US &#8220;supermax&#8221; jail, without any contact with human beings. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>American officials assured the UK Hamza would not face the death penalty or be sent to Guant\u00e1namo Bay or other secret prisons at which torture is allegedly used. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abu Hamza to face trial in America MUSLIM cleric Abu Hamza has lost his high court battle against extradition to the US to face trial on terrorism charges. &#13; The 49-year-old is currently serving a seven year sentence here in the UK for soliciting murder and inciting racial hatred. &#13; Hamza is wanted in America [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}