He was released on bail and subsequently charged. He was arrested on June 11, 2019, on suspicion of intentionally encouraging or assisting offences contrary to Section 44 of the Serious Crime Act 2007. The MQM founder, 68, was investigated by detectives from the Met Police’s Counter-Terrorism Command over his speech that caused riots in Karachi and attacks on news channels. Scotland Yard had charged Hussain in October 2019 with a terrorism offence in a case related to his controversial speech relayed live from the United Kingdom to his followers in Pakistan on August 22, 2016. Hussain was defended by his lawyers at Corker Binning against the Crown’s lawyers. He was brought to the court on a wheel chair. LONDON: Former chief of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Altaf Hussain went on trial on Monday at the Kingston Crown Court, for approximately three weeks in the hate speech case brought by the Crown Prosecution Service for his controversial speech inciting violence in Karachi in 2016. Altaf’s hate speech trial gets underway in London
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