Moazzam Begg appears in court on Syria-linked terror charges

Moazzam Begg appeared at Westminster Magistrates Court alongside a woman, Gerrie Tahari, 44, of Ashway, Sparkbrook, Birmingham, who is charged with facilitating terrorism overseas.

She denied the charge and was also remanded in custody to appear at the Old Bailey on March 14 with Begg.

Former Guantanamo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg was remanded in custody at Westminster Magistrates Court charged with Syria-related terror offences. He denied the charges and will appear next at the Old Bailey on March 14.

ITV News' UK Editor Lucy Manning is at Westminster Magistrates Court:

A campaign group has said it is dismayed but not surprised that former Guantanamo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg had been charged with Syria-related terror offences.

Begg had written several times for the organisation. In a statement following the charge, research director of CAGE Asim Qureshi said:

Former Guantanamo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg will appear in court today, charged with Syria-related terror offences.

Begg, 45, of Boden Road, Hall Green, Birmingham, is accused of providing terrorist training and funding terrorism overseas, West Midlands Police said.

He will appear at Westminster Magistrates Court alongside a woman, Gerrie Tahari, 44, of Ashway, Sparkbrook, Birmingham, who is charged with facilitating terrorism overseas.

Both were arrested on Tuesday. Two other men arrested the same day remain in police custody.

Begg was held in the US-run military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba for nearly three years.

Read: Begg charged with Syria-linked terror offences

Moazzam Begg and a woman, Gerrie Tahari, both from Birmingham, have been charged with Syria-related terror offences, West Midlands Police said today.