Sentences with phrase «of terror offences»

Since then, prosecution has become simpler and the number of terror offences has been increased.

Of the 40,000 people who were stopped last year at UK airports under Schedule 7 anti-terror laws, just two were convicted of terror offences.

Only 44 per cent of the 1,471 suspects arrested were charged, and just 102 people were eventually convicted of terror offences.

According to government statistics 482 people suspected of terror offences have their assets frozen worldwide.

Dr Antony McRoy's been speaking to Premier after Mr Choudhary was convicted of terror offences, having encouraged people to join Islamic State - a banned organisation which has waged war on Britain.

The 21 - year - old man was arrested in Hounslow, west London, on Saturday night on suspicion of a terror offence and is in custody in south London.

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Perhaps most shocking of all is that of all the British Muslims arrested since 2001 for terror offences, often named in the media and with their reputations forever dirtied, only a third were ever charged, just 12 % were prosecuted, and six per cent convicted.

Less controversially, the counterterrorism bill also enables post-charge questioning of suspects, increased sentencing for general offences linked to terrorism and increased use of DNA evidence in terror offences.

The legislation raises a plethora of issues and significantly alters the security landscape: It gives the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) powers beyond intelligence gathering (to actively target threats and derail plots); creates new offences (criminalizing «terrorist propaganda» and the «promotion of terror»); lowers the legal threshold to trigger detention to those who may carry out an offence from the existing standard of will carry out to may carry out; extends preventive detention for «suspected» terrorists from three days to seven days (inconsistent with the constitutional presumption of innocence); legally entrenches a no fly list; and grants government agencies explicit authority to share private information with domestic and foreign entities.