UK Government backs Islamists in battle to remove their names from terror blacklist – Daily Telegraph

Posted January 19th, 2010 in Islam, news, proscribed organisations, terrorism by sally

“The Government is secretly supporting an attempt by UK-based Islamists to have their names removed from an international terror blacklist.”

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Daily Telegraph, 19th January 2010

Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Extremist Islamist groups to be banned under new terror laws – The Guardian

Posted January 12th, 2010 in demonstrations, Islam, news, proscribed organisations, terrorism by sally

“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.”

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The Guardian, 11th January 2010

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MH (Syria) v Secretary of State for the Home Department; DS (Afghanistan) v Same – WLR Daily

Posted March 26th, 2009 in asylum, law reports, proscribed organisations by sally

MH (Syria) v Secretary of State for the Home Department; DS (Afghanistan) v Same [2009] EWCA Civ 226; [2009] WLR (D) 109

“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.”

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The Guardian, 7th July 2008

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Alton and Others v Secretary of State for the Home Department – Times Law Reports

Posted May 13th, 2008 in law reports, proscribed organisations, terrorism by sally

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

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Lord Alton of Liverpool and others v Secretary of State for the Home Department – WLR Daily

Posted May 9th, 2008 in law reports, proscribed organisations, terrorism by sally

Lord Alton of Liverpool and others v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2008] EWCA Civ 443; [2008] WLR (D) 141

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

Posted May 7th, 2008 in news, proscribed organisations, terrorism by sally

“The government has been denied permission to challenge an order that it take an Iranian opposition group off a list of banned terror organisations.”

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BBC News, 7th May 2008

Source: www.bbc.co.uk