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Britain to designate Hizb ut-Tahrir as a ‘terrorist’ group

ByRomeo Minalane

Jan 16, 2024
Britain to designate Hizb ut-Tahrir as a ‘terrorist’ group

UK federal government states the group is anti-Semitic and motivates ‘terrorism’.

Britain has actually relocated to prohibit the group Hizb ut-Tahrir, stating it is anti-Semitic and ought to be designated as a “terrorist” organisation.

Parliament today will discuss a proposition to make signing up with the group unlawful in the United Kingdom under terrorism laws, the Home Office stated on Monday.

“Hizb ut-Tahrir is an anti-Semitic organisation that promotes and motivates terrorism, consisting of applauding and commemorating the terrible October 7 attacks,” Home Secretary James Cleverly stated.

Hizb ut-Tahrir’s event of the October 7 Hamas attacks on southern Israel and descriptions of Hamas members as heroes on its site has actually made up promoting and motivating “terrorism”, Cleverly stated.

Skillfully stated the organisation has a history of applauding and commemorating attacks on Jewish individuals.

Soon after the Hamas attacks and the subsequent war on Gaza, the group contacted Muslim nations to “Get your armies and go and get rid of the Zionist occupiers.”

Former Prime Ministers Tony Blair and David Cameron attempted to prohibit the group while in power, however both dropped the strategies.

The group, established in 1953 with its head office in Lebanon, runs in 32 nations, consisting of Britain, the United States, Canada and Australia. It has a long-lasting objective of developing a caliphate ruled under Islamic law, the Home Office stated.

The group is currently prohibited in numerous nations, consisting of Bangladesh, Egypt and Germany.

According to the British Home Office, if parliament concurs with the classification, the label will enter result from Friday, putting the group on par with other designated groups, consisting of al-Qaeda and ISIL (ISIS).

The proscription will likewise make it an offense to support the group, which would be punishable by as much as 14 years in jail and might result in possession seizures.

According to the federal government’s site, Cleverly might identify a group a “terrorist” organisation under British law if the organisation is thought to be “worried in terrorism, and it is proportional to do”.

Labour Party Home Secretary Yvette Cooper invited the statement.

“It is best that the federal government has actually looked urgently at the proof and intelligence info offered to them about the hazard positioned by Hizb ut-Tahrir, and we invite and support the choice to proscribe them,” she stated.

“Those who prompt violence and promote or glorify terrorism have no put on Britain’s streets and need to deal with the full blast of the law.”

On Hizb ut-Tahrir’s site last month, the group stated the call to prohibit the organisation in Britain was “an indication of desperation”.

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