The comfy prison cell awaiting Abu Qatada in Jordan He may find it an improvement on Belmarsh Prison, south London, where he was incarcerated. Muwaqqer has a library, a music room, a centre for "social development" and craft rooms, where inmates can built model ships. They can also earn a salary by working in the small prison supermarket, and if conditions are not to their liking, there is a complaints box. The jail's environs were the product of an effort by the government to improve its human rights reputation. Qatada, who was once considered one of Britain's worst terrorist risks, will spend his first few weeks here while being questioned by prosecutors. Because he is considered highly dangerous he will be kept by himself, and so be given his own cell in Muwaqqer. It is well ventilated and has a mattress," said a Jordanian prison official. He will have three meals per day, including deserts and fruit. The Islamist cleric makes the journey accompanied by a Jordanian "welfare team" including a consultant psychiatrist, a pathologist, the head of a human rights group, and a lawyer, said a source with detailed knowledge of the arrangements. The team is all male, respecting his wish that no women be included. In 1999, Jordanian courts convicted the cleric in his absence of a conspiracy to carry out bombings in Jordan, which resulted in successful attacks on the American School and the Jerusalem Hotel in Amman in 1998. Initially condemning him to death, his sentence was then reduced to life imprisonment with hard labour. While he was never convicted of any offence in Britain, his sermons were seen as a font of motivation for global jihadists. He is also accused of involvement in a failed plan known as the "millennium conspiracy" in 2000, to attack Western and Israeli targets during millennium celebrations. Now, he will stand trial in Jordan. "He will be detained in Muwaqqer until the preliminary investigation is finished by the general prosecutor's office," said the prison official. Then, he will be referred to the state security court and face trial there. Qatada's family and friends deny the charges against the cleric. They told The Sunday Telegraph that they hoped he would get bail, a matter that will be decided by Jordan's general prosecutor. Much of the family still lives in the Amman district of Ras al-Ain, a maze of mismatched grey concrete buildings and narrow streets on a hillside, where Qatada spent much of his childhood, and to which he has not returned for more than 20 years. Just down the road from a mosque that the young Qatada helped build, the family's restaurant, a cubby hole with only four tables, serves beans, falafel and hummus to a stream of customers. We will soon get him in here washing the dishes. He will wish he is back in Belmarsh prison in the UK," a cousin joked. A close relative of Qatada said the family were concerned for his safety. They said: "We want to know that the authorities here won't harm him and or use the old procedures in terms of hurting and insulting him. There is an agreement that should guarantee his safety. But the state security court in Jordan is unconstitutional.. Ibrahim Jazi, a former justice minister who worked on the case, said: "He will be well treated. It is very important for Jordan that this case goes smoothly. It is good for us to show the whole world that we have a civilised judiciary. Any harm against Abu Qatada is harmful to Jordan. Qatada's trial is likely to be a complex process. Past defendants in the same case said that the Jordanian General Intelligence Directorate (the GID) had tortured them and that the information they gave was under duress. Under the treaty between Jordan and Britain, information obtained under torture cannot be used to convict Abu Qatada. "It is going to be complicated," said Mr Jazi. Because Abu Qatada will have to prove that people were tortured for the evidence. Ultimately, Qatada's future in Jordan will likely be determined by Jordanian politics. Many of the previously accused in the same cases have been released. Some were pardoned by the King," said a former senior Jordanian official. He will be released most likely. This is not as important for the Jordanians as it is for the British. People are not worried about Abu Qatada; there is not such a big fuss. A Western official admitted to The Telegraph that the GID is known to have a "give and take" relationship with hardline Islamists, and that Qatada could be released as part of that approach. Marwan Shehadah, a friend of Abu Qatada and analyst, said: "This case is a political issue now. I am sure in the end on this he will be released.