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The Sunday Telegraph has paid "substantial damages" to the general secretary of Finsbury Park mosque after it falsely portrayed him as a supporter of violent lslamist extremism as part of a botched attempt to criticise the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn.
In March 2016 the newspaper published an article headlined: "Corbyn and the mosque leader who blames the UK for Isil." The story tried to connect the Labour leader to extremist views allegedly held by Mohammed Kozbar, who runs the mosque in Corbyn's Islington North constituency and is also vice-chair of the Muslim Association of Britain.
Kozbar successfully argued that the article was defamatory and the Sunday Telegraph has now removed the article from its website, published a ruling accepting the article was defamatory, and paid damages understood to be in the region of £30,000 to settle the case. This does not include the newspaper's costs.