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Anjem Choudary has denied breaking terrorism laws at a British court.
Choudary, 49, was arrested and charged over speeches that were posted on YouTube.
It is alleged by the prosecution that Choudary and Mohammed Rahman, 33, who is also on trial, contravened laws combatting terrorism. Both men have denied the charges.
A jury will now determine their guilt or innocence.
Alastair Campbell is tired, angry and depressed. Slumped horizontally on his sofa at home in north London, he describes how he feels after Britain's - or rather England's - decision to leave the EU, against which he fought so hard behind the scenes.
"How do I feel? I feel very, very..." A big sigh. "I feel tired. I do feel quite depressed about it," he says. "I do feel actually very down about it. I do feel anxious about where it's going to lead. I feel sad...I feel dreadful about it."
Speaking to Christian Today as his beloved Labour party appears to be imploding, this is Campbell's most personal interview, in which the well-known atheist reveals that he may one day come to faith. "Part of me that would love to have it," he says, adding that his old boss Tony Blair is convinced he will come round.
LONDON, June 27 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - British teachers should be vigilant ahead of the long summer holidays for warning signs that parents might take their children abroad to marry them off or undergo female genital mutilation (FGM), experts warned on Monday.
The end of the school term "marks the start of the cutting season where young girls are taken abroad and brutally mutilated by their families," said Aneeta Prem, founder of Freedom Charity, which campaigns on forced marriage and FGM.
Physicist Brian Cox has slammed the obsession with 'safe spaces' at universities.
The BBC presenter said he 'disagrees very profoundly' with banning controversial speakers from having a platform as he has seen first-hand how it raises intolerance among students.
Whilst he accepts that the premise of such restriction is to 'build a less aggressive space', he says that university is the most appropriate place to encourage debate on difficult questions.
A federal judge on Monday ruled that clerks in Mississippi may not recuse themselves from issuing marriage licenses to gay couples based on religious beliefs, despite a bill passed by the state legislature intended to carve out that exception for them.
U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves said that the recusals on religious grounds granted by the state's so-called "Protecting Freedom of Conscience from Government Discrimination Act", or House Bill 1523, violated the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark 2015 ruling legalizing gay marriage.
The standard for defining pornography, according to Potter Stewart, a former US Supreme Court judge, is simple. “I know it when I see it,” he said in 1964. Sheriffs in Utah plan to use a different sense: the state has acquired a dog that has been specially trained to sniff it out.
URL — pronounced “Earl” — is a 16-month-old black labrador able to detect chemical compounds found on thumb drives, SIM cards and other electronic storage devices to aid police in seizing illicit pornography.
More than 100 legal cases against crematoria which were put on hold until former Lord Advocate Dame Elish Angiolini published her investigation findings are to be pursued again in the wake of the harrowing report.
Thompsons Solicitors said up to 20 in Glasgow and a similar number in Aberdeen were in the process of being prepared and now the cases are expected to be formally brought to crematorium owners.
From Texas to Alabama to Wisconsin, more than a dozen Republican-run states in recent years have passed laws requiring that abortion clinics have hospital-grade facilities or use doctors with admitting privileges at nearby hospitals.
Now, Monday’s Supreme Court ruling — that those provisions in a Texas law do not protect women’s health and place an undue burden on a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion — will quickly reverberate across the country.
A member of the Paedophile Information Exchange has been convicted of 13 offences against children between the 1960s and 1980s.
Douglas Slade, 75, was expelled from the Philippines in 2015 and brought back to the UK to be charged with the offences.
Slade, formerly of Sea Mills and Totterdown in Bristol, was convicted of all charges against him following a trial at Bristol Crown Court.
Could the Scottish Government’s flagship named person scheme become the SNP’s equivalent of the poll tax? That is the question which may be on the minds of SNP supporters following the Scottish Parliament’s recent debate on the issue. After all, the decade’s long decline in the Scottish Conservative brand was attributed by many to Margaret Thatcher’s controversial tax, which she stubbornly persisted with despite how unpopular it was with the public. The comparison seems eerily appropriate as the opposition to the Named Person scheme continues to grow. No matter how much Government ministers give assurances that the scheme is simply an ‘entitlement’, the Scottish public remains unconvinced and sceptical about the aims of the scheme.