Radical Muslim cleric Anjem Choudary has been detained and charged with inviting support for the Islamic State, U.K. prosecutors announced Wednesday.

Choudary, 48, is one of two men charged under the Terrorism Act 2000 Wednesday and is accused of “inviting support” for the militants between June 2014 and March 2015, according to the BBC.  Mohammed Mizanur Rahman, 32, has also been charged.

“It is alleged that Anjem Choudary and Mohammed Rahman invited support for Isis [also known as IS] in individual lectures which were subsequently published online,” Sue Hemming, head of special crime and counterterrorism at the Crown Prosecution Service said, according to BBC.

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