Sentences with phrase «with terrorist offences»

Two were released without charge, while the remaining men were charged with terrorist offences relating to fundraising.

Even more concerning was that only person on whom a control order was imposed was later charged with a terrorist offence, and even in that case he was not convicted.

Not exact matches

A preliminary report by peers and MPs today finds new offences of encouragement of terrorism and attending terrorist training camps could be incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).

And the forthcoming Counter Terrorism Bill will propose additional penalties for terrorists charged with other criminal offences.

For the first time in Canadian legal history, a definition for «terrorist activity,» together with several new terrorism - related offences, was written into our Criminal Code.

At minimum, the offence prohibits private and public speech advocating or promoting any of the several terrorism offences in the Criminal Code, some of which are non-violent offences, as well as speech advocating or promoting indictable criminal offences committed for the sake of or in association with terrorist groups.

Consequently, the substantive curtailment of a mens rea requirement for the definition of «facilitation» of a terrorist offence is disturbing, since it does the opposite of being commensurate with the assured gravity of the offence or its punishment.

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.

A 16 - year - old boy, the youngest on trial for terrorism offences in Canada, has been found guilty by a Quebec youth court judge of committing a robbery in association with a terrorist organization and planning to leave Canada to join a jihadist group abroad.

They also do not know that suspicious transaction monitoring requires screening for the identity of terrorist groups to determine whether they are dealing with funds owned by a terrorist group that may involve a terrorist activity financing offence.