{"id":139908,"date":"2014-10-01T13:35:11","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T13:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=139908"},"modified":"2014-10-01T13:35:11","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T13:35:11","slug":"uk-drops-charges-ex-guantanamo-inmate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/uk-drops-charges-ex-guantanamo-inmate\/","title":{"rendered":"UK drops charges against ex-Guantanamo inmate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"ctl00_cphBody_dvSummary\" class=\"articleSumm\"><strong>Moazzam Begg to be released on Wednesday after seven terrorism charges related to Syria are dropped at pre-trial review.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Moazzam Begg,\u00a0a former Guantanamo Bay detainee,\u00a0has been released\u00a0from prison after UK prosecutors dropped seven terrorism-related charges against him linked to the conflict in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>Begg, 45, was among four people arrested in February <a class=\"internallink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/europe\/2014\/02\/uk-holds-ex-guantanamo-inmate-over-syria-trip-2014225143222328690.html\" target=\"_blank\">under suspicion<\/a> of\u00a0allegations including that\u00a0he had\u00a0attended a &#8220;terrorist&#8221; training camp in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>Begg appeared before a pre-trial review at\u00a0the Central Criminal Court of England and Wales on Wednesday\u00a0via video from the high security Belmarsh prison when the court formally acquitted him of all charges.<\/p>\n<p>He\u00a0spoke only to confirm his name and did not react as no evidence was offered by the prosecutor following a review of the case.<\/p>\n<p>He is expected to be released from the southeast London jail later on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/europe\/2014\/10\/uk-drops-charges-against-ex-guantanamo-inmate-201410110523625535.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moazzam Begg to be released on Wednesday after seven terrorism charges related to Syria are dropped at pre-trial review. Moazzam Begg,\u00a0a former Guantanamo Bay detainee,\u00a0has been released\u00a0from prison after UK prosecutors dropped seven terrorism-related charges against him linked to the conflict in Syria. Begg, 45, was among four people arrested in February under suspicion of\u00a0allegations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":139909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,1615],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-139908","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-uk-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}