Human Rights Tribunal has awarded compensation to the ideologues of al-Qaida.

The European Court of Human Rights ordered the British authorities to pay a radical Islamic preacher Abu Katade (Abu Qatada), who is ambassador of al-Qaida in Europe ", 2500 pounds of compensation (about 3600 dollars), informs BBC News.

The judges felt that the contents of Abu Katady long in prison without trial under British law, only one on terrorism (Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act), a human rights violation. The court decision is final and not appealable.

The European Court of Human Rights ordered Britain to pay cash compensation in the amount from 1500 to 3400 pounds even ten persons, who after the attacks of September 11, 2001 were arrested and were in a British prison on suspicion of terrorism and links with Al Qaeda. "

Among them, six Algerians, a Frenchman, Moroccan, a Tunisian and Palestinian refugee camps of Jordan, officially regarded as a person without citizenship. Судьи посчитали, что действия британских властей в отношении этих людей нарушают три статьи Европейской конвенции по защите прав человека, в том числе право на свободу, на справедливÑ&lsqauo;й суд и на компенсацию за незаконное задержание.

Abu Katada received refugee status in Britain in 1994. In 2002 he was arrested after police discovered in the apartments of the terrorists, staged the attacks of 11 September, videotapes of his sermons in which he urged Muslims to jihad. He was sent to London in Belmarsh high security prison, where he held the following three years.

He briefly came out to freedom, but in 2005 after a series of terrorist attacks in London was re-arrested on suspicion of aiding terrorists. In 2008, he was released on bail, but was again arrested after trying to leave the UK. Katada feared that the British government issued its Jordan, where he was sentenced to life imprisonment.