MPs have voted to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation. MPs backed the move to proscribe the direct action group under the Terrorism Act 2000 by 385 to 26, majority 359, in the Commons today. The motion is expected to be debated and voted on by the House of Lords...
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Counter-terror police have arrested four people after military planes were sprayed with paint during a break-in at RAF Brize Norton that was claimed by a pro-Palestinian group. Footage posted online last Friday by Palestine Action showed two people inside the Oxfordshire airbase in darkness, with one riding on a...
A neo-Nazi teenager was snared by police and MI5 as he tried to buy a Makarov pistol for a terrorist attack, a court has heard. Alfie Coleman was detained by armed police in a Morrisons car park moments after he paid £3,500 in exchange for what he thought was...
Terrorists are getting younger, with almost one in three suspects under 20 years old last year, and the youngest being just 12, a report by Europol released on Tuesday showed. “Online cult communities” use digital platforms to spread and normalize images of extreme cruelty, extort victims and incite young...
A 28-year-old male from Talbot Green has today been sentenced for attempted murder and nine other offences following a violent attack at Talbot Green Police station on Friday 31 January. Alexander Dighton today, June 13, appeared at Central Criminal Court where he was handed a life sentence of 22...
A man from Leicester has been sentenced to five-and-a half years for possession of a terrorist document. Claudiu Stefan Cristea (08/02/1978) was found guilty by a jury of possessing a terrorist document, following a week-long trial at Leicester Crown Court. Cristea was arrested in February 2024 as part...
A man charged with terrorism offences, a bomb hoax and arson attacks on two leisure centres is set to face trial next year. Ilyas Akhtar, 20, of Cress Road, Slough, is charged with one count of preparing terrorist acts and a separate count of possessing information likely to be...
Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has issued the following statement ahead of a planned protest in support of Palestine Action, due to take place in Westminster on Monday, 23 June. “I’m sure many people will be as shocked and frustrated as I am to see a protest taking place tomorrow...
Daniel Fox Fischer, 17, was arrested June 9 by the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division on one count each of threatening or conspiring to threaten real or personal property using a destructive device and possession or using a weapon of mass destruction for an act of terrorism. Fischer was...
Two activists have been convicted of harassing a government minister over the Israel-Hamas war. The pair were found guilty of the charge against Alex Davies-Jones, the Labour MP for Pontypridd. Ayeshah Behit, 31, and Hiba Ahmed, 26, filmed a confrontation with Ms Davies-Jones, who had been campaigning in Treforest,...
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