(National-UAE) British police are investigating whether the founder of a human rights group broke terrorism laws by praising Iranian general Qassem Suleimani after his death in a US drone strike.
The National reported last week that charity regulators censured an Islamic centre that hosted the candlelit event on January 3 to mourn Suleimani, who was killed that day in an air strike in Baghdad.
The rebuke came after Massoud Shadjareh, the founder of the Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC), told crowds outside the London centre that “we aspire to be like him.”
Charity regulators did not identify Mr Shadjareh but said a speaker at the event appeared to break the law in his address outside the Islamic Centre of England under legislation that makes it an offence to glorify terrorism.
