Former Guantánamo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg was remanded in custody at Westminster magistrates court on Saturday charged with Syria-related terror offences. He denied the charges and will appear next at the Old Bailey on 14 March.

Begg appeared alongside a woman, Gerrie Tahari, 44, of Ashway, Sparkbrook, Birmingham, who is charged with facilitating terrorism overseas.

She denied the charge and was also remanded in custody to appear at the Old Bailey on the same day as Begg. Both were arrested on Tuesday.

Two other men arrested the same day remain in police custody. They are a 36-year-old man from Shirley, Solihull, and a 20-year-old man (the son of Tahari) from Sparkhill, Birmingham, who were held on suspicion of facilitating terrorism overseas.

Begg was held in the US-run military prison at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba for nearly three years.

He moved to Afghanistan with his family in 2001 before taking them to Pakistan in 2002 when the war began.

He was detained in Islamabad, Pakistan, as an "enemy combatant" in January 2002 and was taken to the Bagram internment centre for about a year before being transferred to Guantánamo.

He was released along with three others in January 2005 and was allowed to return to the UK.