British prosecutors have dropped terrorism charges against a former Guantanamo Bay detainee who is a high-profile advocate for the rights of terror suspects.
Moazzam Begg had been due to stand trial next week on seven counts relating to the war in Syria.
On Wednesday, a judge at London's Central Criminal Court acquitted him of all charges after prosecutors said new evidence meant "there is no longer a realistic prospect of conviction in this case."
Begg, who has been in prison since his arrest in February, is expected to be released from Belmarsh Prison in south London later on Wednesday.
Begg was arrested in Pakistan in 2002 as an "enemy combatant."
He was held by US forces in Afghanistan and sent a year later to the US-run prison camp in Cuba. He was released without charge in 2005.
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