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Norway banishes Islamist preacher to remote village after prison release
Source: Agence France-Presse
Norway banishes Islamist preacher to remote village after prison release
Agence France-Presse in Oslo
Monday 2 February 2015 23.17 GMT
A court in Oslo on has authorised police to banish radical Iraqi Islamist preacher Mullah Krekar to a remote Norwegian village.
The mullah, 58, who has been living in Norway since 1991, founded the radical Islamist group Ansar al-Islam.
He was released from prison at the end of January after serving a two-year, 10-month sentence for making threats against the prime minister, Erna Solberg, before she came to office, and three Kurds.
The police had invoked special measures to order Krekar, whose real name is Najmeddine Faraj Ahmad, to live in a refugee centre in Kyrksaeteroera, a village of 2,500 people situated 500km (300 miles) from the capital.
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Agence France-Presse in Oslo
Monday 2 February 2015 23.17 GMT
A court in Oslo on has authorised police to banish radical Iraqi Islamist preacher Mullah Krekar to a remote Norwegian village.
The mullah, 58, who has been living in Norway since 1991, founded the radical Islamist group Ansar al-Islam.
He was released from prison at the end of January after serving a two-year, 10-month sentence for making threats against the prime minister, Erna Solberg, before she came to office, and three Kurds.
The police had invoked special measures to order Krekar, whose real name is Najmeddine Faraj Ahmad, to live in a refugee centre in Kyrksaeteroera, a village of 2,500 people situated 500km (300 miles) from the capital.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/02/norway-banishes-islamist-preacher-to-remote-village-after-prison-release