Jamaican Muslim cleric staying in Kenyan prison
NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenya’s immigration minister says a radical Jamaican-born Muslim cleric who is stuck in Kenya after attempts to deport him failed will stay in prison until authorities find a way for him to go home.
Otieno Kajwang says attempts to deport Sheik Abdullah el-Faisal last Thursday failed because he was denied a transit visa in Nigeria, where he was to connect a flight to Gambia. Gambia had agreed to host him. El-Faisal was flown back to Kenya yesterday morning.
Britain, South Africa, Tanzania and the United States have declined to grant el-Faisal a transit visa that would allow him to get to Jamaica.
El-Faisal served four years in Britain for inciting murder and stirring racial hatred by urging followers to kill Americans, Hindus and Jews.
