On February 26, 2015, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, in U.S. v. Al Fawwaz, convicted Khaled Al-Fawwaz of conspiracy in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. According to U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, Al Fawwaz, a Saudi Arabian man, was “one of bin Laden’s original and most trusted lieutenants” who, from his media office in London, England, disseminated “bin Laden's 1998 order to followers to kill Americans, a directive that was followed by the August 1998 embassy bombings” that killed 224 people. Al Fawwaz was arrested in London in 1998 and a British court ruled in favor of his extradition in 2001. Concluding that he would likely be detained in a “supermax” prison in the United States, he challenged the British court’s ruling arguing that extradition would be a violation of Article 3 (prohibition against inhuman or degrading punishment) of the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR). Al-Fawwaz was eventually extradited to the United States in 2012 after the European Court of Human Rights held in Ahmad v. United Kingdom that detention in such prisons did not constitute a violation of Article 3.