UK Govt to Revamp Treason Laws to Prosecute Returning Jihadis: Report
1 May 2021
Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government is reportedly looking to modernise 650-year-old treason laws in order to make it easier to prosecute jihadis returning from the Middle East.
An overhaul of the treason statutes in Britain set to be included in the Queen’s Speech on May 11th will update what qualifies someone as an enemy of the state, including “acts of betrayal” such as joining foreign terrorist organisations or hacker networks.
The revamped legal framework will also reportedly shift the burden of proof to the individual when travelling to terrorist hot spots such as Iraq or Syria. Under current law, the government has to prove nefarious intent by those who travel to such regions, and gathering hard evidence of crimes in such places is extremely difficult.
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states. that something president trump s ever been willing to tolerate from the very beginning in his oath of office and executing that policy annoys some people that s what elections are about. jon: president trump told american troops in afghanistan on thanksgiving day that the u.s. has hundreds of terrorist prisoners in custody who are citizens of european countries and nuance and taken back to europe. those words spoken for yesterday s terror attack. meanwhile people on both sides of the atlantic are praising heroic actions of individual citizens of preventing further carnage yesterday but is not the first time citizens have sprung into action. it happened on 9/11 with when they tried to storm the cockpit of flight 193. two u.s. military members tackled unarmed terrorist on a train in belgium.