A HUMAN rights organisation which blamed MI5 for radicalising an Islamic State terrorist will no longer receive funding from a York-based group.

The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust's last payment to Cage was in January 2014, but money will cease after bosses released a statement claiming to have been put under "intense regulatory pressure" to stop giving the controversial group money.

Last month, Cage leader Asim Qureshi accused the security services of radicalising Mohammed Emwazi, the London student who has been identified as IS militant ‘Jihadi John’, by harassing and alienating him.

A spokesman for The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, said they began funding Cage to promote and protect human rights.

"The Trust does not necessarily agree with every action or statement of those that we have funded.

"In December 2013, the Charity Commission opened an operational compliance case in respect of this funding relationship. We have co-operated fully with the Commission’s enquiries over an extended period.

"In the last week, we have been put under intense regulatory pressure to rule out any future funding of Cage regardless of any future changing circumstances.

"In the light of regulatory pressure, and to protect the interests of all our grantees and the other work of the Trust, we have decided to publicly confirm that we will not fund Cage either now or in the future."