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15:39 GMT, Friday, 5 August 2005 16:39 UK
At-a-glance: New terror plans
Tony Blair has proposed a raft of anti-terror measures. Here are the main points of the plans.
- New grounds for deporting and excluding people from the UK - including fostering hatred or, advocating and justifying violence to further beliefs. The powers will cover statements already on record. Consultation on the plans will finish this month
- Agreements with other countries, such as Jordan, to ensure people can be deported to their nations of origin without being tortured or ill-treated
- Amend human rights laws, if necessary, to prevent legal obstacles to new deportation rules
- Home secretary automatically to consider deporting any foreigner involved in listed extremist bookshops, centres, organisations and websites
- Make justifying or glorifying terrorism anywhere an offence
- Automatically refuse asylum to anyone with anything to do with terrorism anywhere
- Consult on setting a maximum time limit for extraditions to other countries - Mr Blair said it was unacceptable that Rashid Ramda, wanted for the Paris Metro bombing 10 years ago, was still in the UK
- Examine calls for police to be able to hold terror suspects for longer before pressing charges
- Use more control orders against British terror suspects, who cannot be deported
- Increase the number of special judges hearing terror cases
HIZB UT TAHRIR
- Hizb ut Tahrir or HT is an Islamic
group which is banned in some countries including Germany
- It was established in the Middle East in the 1950s with the aim of creating a single Islamic state ruled by Sharia law
- A statement posted after last month's G8 summit said the "colonialists, especially America and Britain, harbour a hidden hatred
against Islam and the Muslims"
- Ban the Hizb ut Tahrir and the successor organisation of Al-Muhajiroun - and look at whether the grounds for banning such groups need to be widened
- Review the threshold for gaining British citizenship and establish, with the Muslim community, a commission to advise how to better integrate parts of the community "presently inadequately integrated"
- Create a list of foreign preachers who will be kept out of the UK and consult on creating new powers to close places of worship used to foment extremism
- Use biometric visas for those from designated countries and compiling a database so people whose views or activities pose a threat to UK security can be kept out of the country. They could only appeal against the decision from overseas.
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