Kenya: Country in Fresh Bid to Deport Faisal

13 January 2010

Nairobi — Jamaican preacher Sheikh Abdullah al-Faisal was on Wednesday moved from his remand cell to the airport as the government made a second attempt to deport him.

The radical Islamic preacher was removed from the Industrial Area Remand Prison on Tuesday evening, Ms Pauline Ngari, the officer in-charge, said. He had been held at the jail since Sunday. He is now being held at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi pending deportation.

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