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...
27 September 2023 | Threat Analysis, Threat Landscape
Author: Oliver Hair ASyI,Threat Analyst Read Time: 3 minutes Tags: On 6 September 2023, a terror suspect escaped from Wandsworth prison in London. The individual was on remand while awaiting trial for offences, including; collecting information useful to the enemy; eliciting information about members of the armed forces likely to be useful to a person preparing an act of terrorism; and perpetrating a bomb hoax.[1] On 9 September 2023, the individual was arrested in Chiswick, West London, by a plain-clothes counter-terrorism officer. Media reporting suggests...
25 September 2023 | State Threat, Threat Analysis, Threat Landscape
Author: Oliver Hair ASyI,Threat Analyst Read Time: 3 minutes Tags: On 15 September 2023, the Wagner Group was proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the UK Home Office. The proscription makes belonging to the Wagner Group or actively supporting the group in the UK a criminal offence. [1] The Wagner Group is a Russian private military company (PMC) founded in 2014 by Yevgeny Prigozhin.[2] The group has been a key pillar of Russian state power policy and has operated in a series of countries including most notably, Ukraine, Syria, the Central African Republic,...
