The Law That Will Allow the UK Government to Ban Palestine Action
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The Government has laid down the law that will see the civil disobedience group Palestine Action banned across the UK - alongside two neo-Nazi groups which glorify racist murder.
On Monday (30 June) Ministers laid a 'statutory instrument' - a form of law-making by ministers that means MPs and peers cannot amend the legislation, but have to simply approve or reject it as a whole.
The 'Terrorism Act 2000 (Proscribed Organisations) (Amendment) Order 2025' will become law a day after it is signed by the minister at the end of the week, following 90-minutes of debate in the Commons and Lords each.
The terrorism law requires the "affirmative scrutiny procedure" meaning both Commons and Lords must debate and approve it, unlike less important SIs that use negative procedure.
So this one is getting slightly more scrutiny than usual. That's no surprise, however, since it is hugely controversial.
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Also being banned this week, in the same act, are the neo-Nazi 'Maniacs Murder Cult' (known by their Russian acronym of MKU) and the 'Russian Imperial Movement' (RIM/RID), including the Russian Imperial Legion (RIL).
NBC reports that this May, the alleged leader of MKU - who the group refers to as 'Commander Butcher' - was extradited to the US from Moldova, "following his arrest last summer for allegedly instructing an undercover federal agent to dress as Santa Claus and hand out poisoned candy to Jewish children and racial minorities," in New York, prosecutors said.
The New Jersey Department for Homeland Security says of the Maniacs Murder Cult that in 2023, they co-authored a "Kill Guide", which "provided attack tactics, techniques, & procedures" with Neo-Nazi terror group No Lives Matter. The latter calls MKU 'brothers in arms' who together can 'strike anywhere' through racist killings.
In 2020, the US state department designated the Russian Imperial Movement (RIM) and members of its leadership as Specially Designated Global Terrorists, "the first time in history the Department has designated a white supremacist terrorist group."
"RIM has provided paramilitary-style training to white supremacists and neo-Nazis in Europe and actively works to rally these types of groups into a common front against their perceived enemies. RIM has two training facilities in St. Petersburg."
The International Centre for Counter-Terrorism states that the Russian Imperial Movement is a "loose conglomerate of extreme right-wing, nationalist and imperial groups that insist on conducting a more active and aggressive military campaign in Ukraine, including possible use of nuclear weapons." RIM is reported to be actively involved in fighting for Putin in the war on Ukraine.
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The Government has laid down the law that will see the civil disobedience group Palestine Action banned across the UK - alongside two neo-Nazi groups which glorify racist murder.
On Monday (30 June) Ministers laid a 'statutory instrument' - a form of law-making by ministers that means MPs and peers cannot amend the legislation, but have to simply approve or reject it as a whole.
The 'Terrorism Act 2000 (Proscribed Organisations) (Amendment) Order 2025' will become law a day after it is signed by the minister at the end of the week, following 90-minutes of debate in the Commons and Lords each.
The terrorism law requires the "affirmative scrutiny procedure" meaning both Commons and Lords must debate and approve it, unlike less important SIs that use negative procedure.
So this one is getting slightly more scrutiny than usual. That's no surprise, however, since it is hugely controversial.
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Also being banned this week, in the same act, are the neo-Nazi 'Maniacs Murder Cult' (known by their Russian acronym of MKU) and the 'Russian Imperial Movement' (RIM/RID), including the Russian Imperial Legion (RIL).
NBC reports that this May, the alleged leader of MKU - who the group refers to as 'Commander Butcher' - was extradited to the US from Moldova, "following his arrest last summer for allegedly instructing an undercover federal agent to dress as Santa Claus and hand out poisoned candy to Jewish children and racial minorities," in New York, prosecutors said.
The New Jersey Department for Homeland Security says of the Maniacs Murder Cult that in 2023, they co-authored a "Kill Guide", which "provided attack tactics, techniques, & procedures" with Neo-Nazi terror group No Lives Matter. The latter calls MKU 'brothers in arms' who together can 'strike anywhere' through racist killings.
In 2020, the US state department designated the Russian Imperial Movement (RIM) and members of its leadership as Specially Designated Global Terrorists, "the first time in history the Department has designated a white supremacist terrorist group."
"RIM has provided paramilitary-style training to white supremacists and neo-Nazis in Europe and actively works to rally these types of groups into a common front against their perceived enemies. RIM has two training facilities in St. Petersburg."
The International Centre for Counter-Terrorism states that the Russian Imperial Movement is a "loose conglomerate of extreme right-wing, nationalist and imperial groups that insist on conducting a more active and aggressive military campaign in Ukraine, including possible use of nuclear weapons." RIM is reported to be actively involved in fighting for Putin in the war on Ukraine.
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