‘Torture’ man wins appeal right – BBC News
“A Briton who says he was tortured in Pakistan with the complicity of UK security services has won the right to appeal against his terror convictions.”
BBC News, 30th June 2010
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Category: proscribed organisations
‘Partial victory’ on Taliban prisoners challenge – The Independent
“An anti-war activist today won ‘a partial victory’ in her High Court challenge over Britain’s policy of transferring captured Taliban suspects to the Afghan authorities.”
The Independent, 25th June 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Man who called for murder of PM pleads guilty to terror charge – The Independent
“A man who pretended to be al-Qa’ida’s ’emir’ in Britain by publicly calling for the murder of Gordon Brown and Tony Blair pleaded guilty to a string of terrorism offences yesterday.”
The Independent, 11th May 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
UK Government backs Islamists in battle to remove their names from terror blacklist – Daily Telegraph
“The Government is secretly supporting an attempt by UK-based Islamists to have their names removed from an international terror blacklist.”
Daily Telegraph, 19th January 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Extremist Islamist groups to be banned under new terror laws – The Guardian
“The Islamist group Islam4UK, which planned a march through Wootton Bassett, and its ‘parent’ organisation, al-Muhajiroun, are to be banned under new legislation outlawing the ‘glorification’ of terrorism.”
The Guardian, 11th January 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
MH (Syria) v Secretary of State for the Home Department; DS (Afghanistan) v Same – WLR Daily
“A careful approach was to be applied when one was considering an asylum application and the question whether an asylum-seeker was excluded from the provisions of the Refugee Convention by reason of art 1F(c) on the ground that he had been guilty of acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.”
WLR Daily, 25th March 2009
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
Former member of Islamist group barred from becoming solicitor – The Guardian
“A former member of a radical Islamist group who was an Amnesty prisoner of conscience and who now works for an anti-extremist Muslim thinktank has been refused permission to train as a lawyer. The decision was attacked yesterday as ‘McCarthyite’ by a senior lawyer and human rights campaigner.”
The Guardian, 7th July 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Alton and Others v Secretary of State for the Home Department – Times Law Reports
Alton and Others v Secretary of State for the Home Department
Court of Appeal
“An organisation that had no capacity to carry on terrorist activities and was taking no steps to acquire such capacity or otherwise to promote or encourage terrorist activities could not be said to be concerned in terrorism simply because its leaders had the contingent intention to resort to terrorism in the future.”
The Times, 13th May 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Please note the Times Law Reports are only available free on Times Online for 21 days from the date of publication.
Lord Alton of Liverpool and others v Secretary of State for the Home Department – WLR Daily
“An organisation that had no capacity to carry on terrorist activities and was taking no steps to acquire such capacity or otherwise to promote or encourage terrorist activities could not be said to be ‘concerned in terrorism’ simply because its leaders had the contingent intention to resort to terrorism in the future.”
WLR Daily, 8th May 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
UK’s ‘terror’ ban appeal denied – BBC News
“The government has been denied permission to challenge an order that it take an Iranian opposition group off a list of banned terror organisations.”
BBC News, 7th May 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
