Foreign groups banned in Britain

The British government has announced the names of foreign organisations it intends to ban under new anti-terrorist legislation.

Among the twenty-one organisations listed are the Basque separatist group, ETA, the Kurdish PKK based in Turkey, and the Greek revolutionary organisation, November Seventeen, which last year murdered a British diplomat in Athens.

They join such groups as the Tamil Tiger guerrillas in Sri Lanka and the Al-Qa'ida organisation of the Saudi dissident, Osama bin Laden. Also on the list are the Turkish left-wing group, the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front or DHKPC. The British parliament is being asked to approve the list, which would enable activities in Britain on behalf of the groups to be banned.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service