People in right-wing terrorist groups face jail

THE GOVERNMENT has moved to ban membership of more right-wing terrorism groups.

A proscription order has been put before Parliament which would make joining the organisation Sonnenkrieg Division illegal in the UK, the Home Office said.

The proposal has to be debated and is subject to Parliament backing it.

Laws coming into force today will also recognise System Resistance Network as an alias of the already-proscribed group National Action.

Anyone found to be a member of, or offering support to, the groups could now face up to 10 years in jail.

The proscription order also proposes Teyre Azadiye Kurdistan (TAK) and Hezen Parastina Gel (HPG) are listed as aliases for Partiya Karkeren Kurdistani (PKK), which translates as the Kurdistan Worker’s Party.

The PKK has “long been considered to be involved in terrorism”, a department spokesman said, and already appears on the Home Office’s Proscribed Terrorist Organisations list.

Meanwhile emergency legislation to prevent the automatic release from prison of terrorist offenders halfway through their sentences is being rushed through the Lords.

Peers are expected to back all stages of the Terrorist Offenders (Restriction of Early Release) Bill in just one sitting.

Ministers want to get legislation, which has already cleared the Commons, on the statute book by February 27, before the next terrorist prisoner comes up for release.

It follows the Streatham terror attack earlier this month, when Sudesh Amman stabbed two bystanders with a knife he had grabbed from a shop.

And yesterday plans were unveiled by the Home Office to introduce legislation which would mean the owners and operators of public spaces must consider the risks of a terror attack and what measures they will take to prepare for such an event.