A judge imposed a reporting
ban due to a linked trial of Choudary's associates from Luton, who were also
accused of encouraging support for IS.
The juries in the two cases
were not aware that they were sitting on connected cases in the same building
at the Old Bailey.
Britain's most prolific
jihadi recruiter Anjem Choudary is facing up to a decade behind bars after he
was found guilty of terror offences.
The extreme cleric has been
convicted of inviting support for terror group Islamic State in a series of
lectures released on YouTube.
Security sources believe
Choudary is linked to 500 British jihadis who have fled the UK to join the
terrorist organisation in Syria and Iraq.
Speaking exclusively to Sky
News the night before his conviction, Choudary insisted he was merely
exercising his right to freedom of speech.
The 49-year-old from east
London said: "If you look at my speeches, I have said the same thing for
20 years. For me, it is a matter of worship.
"If people are
implementing the Sharia, then I cannot shy away from what the divine text says
in relationship to that.
"If you cannot say
when you believe in something and you cannot share that view, then you don't
really have freedom to express yourself in this country."
The jury took less than
three days to find Choudary and his co-accused Mizanur Rahman, 32, unanimously
guilty of inviting support for a terrorist organisation.
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