Terrorism

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Palestine Action has announced plans to challenge the UK government in court over its plans to proscribe the direct action protest group under terrorism legislation. Gareth Peirce of Birnberg Peirce Solicitors, a high-profile lawyer who previously represented the Guildford Four and the Birmingham Si

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UK government plans to ban Palestine Action under terrorism legislation are "excessive and disproportionate" and arguably unlawful, human rights organisations have warned. The UK's home secretary, Yvette Cooper, yesterday confirmed in a written statement to MPs that she intends to proscribe the prot

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The Irish government has said it will fully implement an EU law at the centre of a referral to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in the "very near future". The European Commission yesterday referred Ireland and two other EU member states to the Luxembourg court over an alleged failur

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Ireland has been referred to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) over its alleged failure to comply with its obligations under the Terrorist Content Online Regulation. The TCO Regulation came into force in June 2022 and requires that terrorist content in the EU is taken down by online

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New terrorist offences are to be created in order to tackle the "foreign terrorist fighter phenomenon", justice minister Jim O'Callaghan has announced. The three new offences are among the provisions in the Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2025, which aims to response to the ev

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Coimisiún na Meán has been given new powers to enforce EU laws aimed at tackling online terrorist content. Having been designated as the competent Irish authority under the EU Terrorist Content Online Regulation (2021/784), Coimisiún na Meán can now impose administrative

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Northern Ireland's Department of Justice is consulting on proposed changes to policing codes of practice in response to new counter-terrorism and national security legislation. The 12-week consultation seeks views on proposed changes to the Police and Criminal Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1989

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Justice minister Helen McEntee has welcomed the vote by the Oireachtas to renew legislative provisions designed to combat terrorism and serious organised crime for another year. The Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 made amendments to the Offences against the State Acts 1939-1985,

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Legal experts from around the world are to take part in a conference at University of Galway which aims to explore the options for conducting trials for terrorism and organised crime in Ireland. The two-day event — entitled 'Replacing the Offences Against the State Acts: The challenge of jury

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Plans to amend the law on glorifying terrorism in the wake of the pro-Palestine marches in the UK should not be implemented as doing so would not help the police, MI5 or the probation service, the UK government’s independent reviewer of terrorism legislation has said. In a 15-page report submi

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Russia's Wagner Group — the private military company whose leader Yevgeny Prigozhin led an abortive rebellion against Vladimir Putin before being killed in a plane crash last month — is to be proscribed in the UK as a terrorist organisation. Home Secretary Suella Braverman has today laid

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An Garda Síochána has been designated as the competent authority in Ireland for issuing legal orders requiring internet service providers to remove online terrorist content. Under the EU Terrorist Content Online Regulation, each EU member state is obliged to designate a competent autho

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