Moazzam Begg charges dropped
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The collapse today of the prosecution of Moazzem Begg raises urgent questions of the UK authorities and their discriminatory treatment of British Muslims. A judge at the Old Bailey ordered Mr Begg's immediate release today after the Crown Prosecution Service admitted there was no reasonable prospect of securing a conviction on any of the seven terrorism charges laid against him. Mr Begg had been in detention for the last seven months after being arrested following one of his many trips to Syria where he has been carrying out humanitarian work with refugees from the conflict there. Online from CAGE, where Moazzam Begg is the Director, is spokesperson..