23 January 2024 | Islamist Terrorism, Threat Analysis
Author: Becca Stewart ASyI,Senior Threat Analyst Read Time: 3 minutes Tags: On 19 January 2024, the British Home Secretary James Cleverly proscribed the Sunni Islamist political organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir as a terrorist organisation, meaning that it is now a criminal offence to belong to, publicly support, and invite support for the group.[1] Hizb ut-Tahrir is an international political party which has had a long-standing goal of uniting Muslims under an Islamic state. The group is allegedly active in 32 countries and is banned in at least 13 countries.[2] The...
04 October 2023 | Deep Dive, Islamist Terrorism, Right Wing Terrorism
Author: Becca Stewart ASyI, Threat Analyst Read Time: 10 minutes Since 2010, in-person radicalisation has been linked to the majority of significant terrorism-related incidents in the UK. At the same time, rates of online radicalisation have been increasing rapidly resulting in growing numbers of convictions for online terrorism offences. Following the December 2022 publication of a report by His Majesty’s Prisons and Probation Service (HMPPS) exploring “the internet and radicalisation pathways” of convicted terrorists in the UK [1], this...
