Timeline: Abu Qatada's legal battle to stay in Britain When that act was repealed in March 2005, he was released on bail and made subject to a control order under the Prevention of Terrorism Act. While his appeal against the control order was still pending, in August 2005 he was served with a notice of intention to deport him to Jordan. Qatada appealed against that decision. He had been convicted in Jordan, in his absence, of involvement in two terrorist conspiracies in 1999 and 2000. The ruling said it was "alleged by the Jordanian authorities that Mr Othman had sent encouragement from the UK to his followers in Jordan and that that had incited them to plant the bombs." Qatada claimed that, if deported, he would be retried, which would put him at risk of torture, lengthy pre-trial detention and a "grossly unfair trial based on evidence obtained by the torture of his co-defendants." The Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) dismissed his appeal, ruling that Qatada would be protected against torture and ill-treatment by the agreement negotiated between the UK and Jordan, which set out a detailed series of assurances. SIAC also found that the retrial would not be in total denial of his right to a fair trial. The Court of Appeal partially granted Qatada's appeal and found that there was a risk that torture evidence would be used against him if he were returned to Jordan and that that would violate the international prohibition on torture and would result in a "flagrant denial of justice" in breach of Article Six of the European Convention on Human Rights. On 18 February 2009 the House of Lords upheld SIAC's findings. They found that the diplomatic assurances would protect Qatada from being tortured. They also found that the risk that evidence obtained by torture would be used in the criminal proceedings in Jordan would not amount to a flagrant denial of justice. In the House of Lords ruling, Lord Phillips accepted that a Jordanian court might use evidence against Qatada that had been extracted by torture and said there was little doubt that a similar trial held in Britain would breach his human rights. But he said Britain was "not in a position to regulate the conduct of trials in the foreign countries from which aliens come and to which they may have to be deported" and would only be in breach of the European Convention of Human Rights if there was a "real risk" that Qatada would suffer a "flagrant denial of justice." In January 2012 the European Court of Human Rights ruled Qatada could not be extradited because he would not receive a fair trial, given the "real risk of the admission of evidence obtained by torture at his retrial." He was released on bail and placed under curfew at a house in London. Last month Qatada was re-arrested, after the Home Secretary said the Government had received assurances from Jordan about his treatment. Qatada's lawyers lodge an appeal with the European Court of Human Rights. Thereas May told MPs the three-month deadline for an appeal had expired at midnight; Qatada's lawyers disagreed, saying the deadline was not for another 24 hours. Labour said the dispute was a "farce."