Choudary is charged with three offences (Image: GETTY)

       The Metropolitan Police has charged Anjem Choudary with three offences.

       Choudary, 56, of East London, is charged with membership of a proscribed organisation, addressing meetings to encourage support for a proscribed organisation and directing a terrorist organisation.

       The Met addressed the charges in a statement released this morning, with a spokesman saying he was charged alongside another man, a 28-year-old Canadian named Khaled Hussein.

       Officials had started investigating the pair earlier this month, with counter-terrorism detectives starting inquiries after Hussein arrived in the UK.

       The statement read: "On Monday, 17 July, Met counter-terrorism detectives investigating alleged membership of a proscribed organisation arrested a 56-year-old man in east London and a 28-year-old Canadian national at Heathrow Airport, after he arrived on a flight.

       "They were held under section 41 of the Terrorism Act 2000 and detectives were granted warrants of further detention allowing them to detain the men until Monday, 24 July."

       The two men will appear at Westminster Magistrates Court later today.

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