Telegraph apologises to Haras Ahmed and pays substantial damages over false extremism allegation

Mr Haras Ahmed has received from the Telegraph a public apology, substantial libel damages and his legal costs for false allegations made in an article by Andrew Gilligan, that he was a Muslim extremist who had sought to undermine the government’s fight against terror.

The Telegraph now accepts that that these allegations are wholly without foundation and that Mr Ahmed is “in no way himself an extremist”.

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