Abu Qatada: Bail conditions in full

  • Published

Abu Qatada is being released under some of the strictest bail restrictions possible under English law.

The full conditions, published by the Special Immigration Appeals Commission, are as follows:

  • Electronic tagging and reporting to a monitoring company

  • Fixed address

  • 22-hour curfew, with permission to leave home for a maximum of one hour twice a day

  • Police and others permitted to enter and search his home

  • No travel ticket or papers

  • Ban on leaving a small area in his neighbourhood, set out on a map that he has been given

  • Banned from attending a mosque

  • Banned from leading prayers, other than those in his own family

  • He must not publish any statement

  • Nobody can enter home other than family, his lawyers and Home Office officials or children under 14

  • Any other visitor must be vetted by the Home Office

  • He cannot make any arrangements to meet anyone outside the home without permission

  • If he meets an acquaintance by chance, he must make his excuses and leave

  • No meeting with 27 named individuals, some of whom are in prison

  • No meeting with anyone who is held on the new form of control orders known as TPims (Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Measures)

  • No mobile phone

  • No internet connection

  • No computer kit that can be connected to the net

  • Visitors may not use a mobile in his home

  • He may only have one bank account

  • He may not hold any bank or credit card not connected to that account

  • He may not transfer money out of the UK

  • He may not help others buy, sell or obtain computer equipment

  • Any educational course or training must be approved by the home secretary

  • Any job must be similarly approved