UK Islamic Extremist Preacher Linked to Terror Plots Released From Prison

Anjem Choudary speaks during a rally calling for muslims to refrain from voting in the 2015 general election during outside the Regents Park mosque in London. Niklas Halle'n/AFP/Getty Images

For two decades, British Islamic preacher Anjem Choudary stayed one step ahead of the law, until 2016, when he was jailed for encouraging others to join the ISIS terrorist group.

But Choudary was released on Oct. 19 after serving only half of his five-year sentence and, according to one organisation, his extremist ideology as still as “as hard as a rock.”