Half-blind, hook-handed Abu Hamza, the infamous jihad-spewing cleric of the Finsbury Park Mosque in Britain, is apparently having a difficult time in prison: Jailed Hamza moans: Stop picking on me.

HATE preacher Abu Hamza has complained of the tough conditions behind bars, it was revealed yesterday.

An Islamic group has taken up the hook-handed preacher’s cause and is demanding human rights organisations help him.

Hamza’s “plight” at top security Belmarsh Prison in south-east London was revealed in a letter from his wife, Nagat Mostafa, to the al-Maqreze Centre for Historical Studies. In her letter written in May, shortly after her husband had surgery to remove an inch of bone from his infected left arm stump, she asked them to do all they could.

The mother of seven of Hamza’s children wrote: “I would like to bring to your attention the current plight of my husband, currently imprisoned in Belmarsh. He was taken from his cell without any prior notification to have an operation to amputate a further part of his arm.

“Firstly, I must say that the reason that his arm needed further amputation was because of the removal of his prostheses, resulting in him constantly putting pressure on the remainder of his fore limbs. As there is no soft furnishing in his cell, he has been suffering considerable pain and discomfort.

“After surgery, before he had even recovered from the anaesthetic, he was returned to Belmarsh, only to be told he had to move from his cell to another one. He was so weak and unable to stand that he refused, resulting in him being put in solitary confinement. No post-operative medical care has been given and the only contact he has had is when food is given to him.”

Nagat Mostafa, 46, went on: “My husband says that the racist bullying and Islamophobia against him have intensified, making his life very difficult. As his wife and mother of his children, I urge you to look into his treatment and do all you can to ensure he is properly treated medically, psychologically and physically.”

The al-Maqreze Centre for Historical Studies has pledged to do all it can. Its leader, Hani Al-Sibai, was accused of praising the 7/7 London bombings. He denied this, saying his comments had been wrongly translated.