Posts Tagged ‘recruitment & radicalization’
Britain to proscribe Terrorgram collective as terrorist organisation
Britain said on Monday it would proscribe the Terrorgram collective, an extreme right-wing online network, as a terrorist organisation, meaning it would become a criminal offense in the country to belong to or promote the group. Britain’s interior ministry, or Home Office, described the group as an online network of neo-fascists producing and spreading violent…
Read MoreUK Teenager denies sharing terrorist publications
An 18-year-old man has denied disseminating terrorist publications. Alex Edwards, from Morriston in Swansea, appeared before Winchester Crown Court on Friday. The offence, alleged to have taken place on a date between 24 September and 16 November 2023, is understood to relate to an extreme right-wing homemade video. Mr Edwards, previously known as Alex Hutton,…
Read MoreStaged videos fuel religious hate and misogyny in India
In a video shared and watched by millions of people in India, a man is seen attacking a person who is wearing a black burka and holding a child. He then forcibly removes the burka to reveal a man. The message accompanying the clip warns in Hindi that people should “be aware” of criminals using…
Read MoreMan from Weston-super-Mare [UK] charged with terrorism offences
A man from Somerset has appeared in court charged with terrorism offences. Gabrielle Budasz, 23, pleaded guilty to collecting information of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism at Westminster Magistrates court on Saturday. Counter Terrorism Policing South East said the charges were linked to extreme…
Read More18-year-old jailed for terrorism offences after he was found with bomb making instructions
An 18-year-old has been jailed after he was found in posession of viable bomb making instructions. Mohammed Afzal, of Preston, posted extremist material that was deemed to ‘encourage terrorism’ on a number of social media accounts. He also collected terrorist information, including directions on how ro make a bomb. He was arrested on suspicion of…
Read MoreCardiff [Wales] man, 22, charged with terrorism offences
A man from Cardiff has been charged with multiple terrorism offences. The 22-year-old was arrested on Monday by Counter Terrorism Policing (CTP) West Midlands in a pre-planned operation with CTP Wales. He was charged with four offences of possessing documents of use to a terrorist and six concerning the distribution of a terrorist publication. He…
Read MorePenn State Abington student indicted for lying about ties to ISIS terrorists
Federal authorities have charged a sophomore at Pennsylvania State University’s Abington campus with lying about his contacts with ISIS sympathizers and assistance he gave to the plotters of an averted terrorist attack in Chicago last year. Kamal Fataliev, 19, of Philadelphia, posted more than 200 bomb, poison, and weapons-making manuals to multiple terrorism-related chat groups…
Read MoreRadical UK Islamist preacher Anjem Choudary charged with three terrorist offences
British radical Islamist preacher Anjem Choudary has been charged with three terrorism offences after being arrested in London last week, police said on Monday. Choudary, 56, has been charged with membership of a proscribed organisation, directing a terrorist organisation and addressing meetings to encourage support for a proscribed organisation, police said. He will appear in…
Read MoreAccused teen had been in contact with hate preacher charged with terrorism
A Castle Rock 18-year-old charged with supporting a terrorist organization had been in contact with a known Muslim extremist, who himself was just arrested for suspicion of a terrorism offense. That detail was released at a Thursday bond hearing for Davin Daniel Meyer, who has been charged with attempting to provide material support to a…
Read MoreSuit against social media companies says racist Buffalo Tops gunman was radicalized online
The white gunman who slaughtered 10 Black people in a racist attack at a Tops grocery store in Buffalo, New York, last year was radicalized on the internet, attorneys representing the victims’ families said Wednesday in announcing a far-reaching wrongful death lawsuit against social media companies, weapon manufacturers and gun retailers. “These social media companies,…
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