Anjem Choudary banned from Facebook and Twitter just five days after he created social media accounts

Anjem Choudary’s social media accounts have been shut down just five days after he set them up.

Twitter said the 54-year-old hate preacher’s page was ‘permanently suspended for violating the rules’ of its violent organisations policy.

Choudary, from Ilford in east London, had his account suspended on Wednesday, before Facebook followed suit on Thursday.

Facebook has been approached for comment but is yet to confirm the suspension.

It comes just weeks after the extremist had his ban on speaking in public lifted following the end of licence conditions imposed after his release from prison.

He was jailed five years ago after being convicted of inviting support for the Islamic State terror group, and he left Belmarsh high-security jail on licence in 2018.

He was freed automatically half-way through a five-and-a-half year sentence.

A string of more than 20 strict licence conditions which Choudary has been subject to since his release expired on July 18.

As well as being prohibited from speaking in public, his internet and mobile phone use was restricted and he was banned from being in contact with people who may be suspected of extremist-related offences without prior approval.

He had to wear an electronic tag and abide by a night-time curfew, only attend pre-approved mosques and stay within a set area, as well as adhere to other standard requirements, like having regular meetings with probation officers.

On his accounts being shut down, he told the Sun: ‘That was quick wasn’t it. I did not even do anything. I thought I was quite moderate in my quotes.

‘I tried to post something yesterday and it came up that I had been suspended. I asked them why but they have not come back yet.’

Choudary’s followers included the killers of soldier Lee Rigby and Siddhartha Dhar, who joined ISIS in 2014 reportedly as an ‘executioner’.

Source: Daily Mail