Ammon News - AMMONNEWS - The State Security Court on Sunday rejected a bail request by Islamist Salafi cleric Omar Mahmoud Othman, known as Abu Qatada, for the second time.

Abu Qatada faces terrorism charges brought against him by the military tribunal, weeks after he was deported from Britain and extradited to Jordan to face trial.

Taysir Diab, Abu Qatada's attorney, told Ammon News on Sunday that the bail request rejected on Sunday was submitted nearly two weeks ago a day after Abu Qatada appeared before the tribunal.

The court reportedly did not give a reason for rejecting the bail request, Diab said.

Abu Qatada, 53, was charged on July 7 with "conspiracy to carry out terrorist acts," just hours after his deportation from Britain. He pleaded not guilty.

The SSC Public Prosecutor ordered Abu Qatada's detention for 15 days pending investigation.

The cleric is currently being held in the Muwaqqar prison, a maximum security facility that houses more than 1,000 inmates, most of them Islamists convicted of terror offenses.

Abu Qatada was condemned to death in absentia in 1999 for conspiracy to carry out terror attacks, including on the American school in Amman.

But the sentence was immediately commuted to life imprisonment with hard labour.

In 2000, he was sentenced in his absence to 15 years for plotting to attack tourists in Jordan during millennium celebrations.

Britain's expulsion of Abu Qatada came after Amman and London last month ratified a treaty guaranteeing that evidence obtained by torture would not be used in his retrial.