For those not in the UK, Jack Straw is the authroitarina New Labour Home Secretary. -J. ----- Original Message ----- From: "STEVE KACZYNSKI" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Forwarding excerpt from Home Office press release dated February 28: > > I have today laid a draft Order, under section 123(4)(a) of the Terrorism > Act, recommending to Parliament that the following organisations be added to > the list of proscribed organisations in Schedule 2 to the Act: > - Al-Qa'ida > - Egyptian Islamic Jihad > - Al-Gama'at al-Islamiya > - Armed Islamic Group (Groupe Islamique Armée) (GIA) > - Salafist Group for Call and Combat (Groupe Salafiste pour la Prédication > et le Combat) (GSPC) > - Babbar Khalsa > - International Sikh Youth Federation > - Harakat Mujahideen > - Jaish e Mohammed > - Lashkar e Tayyaba > - Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) > - Hizballah External Security Organisation > - Hamas-Izz al-Din al-Qassem Brigades > - Palestinian Islamic Jihad - Shaqaqi > - Abu Nidal Organisation > - Islamic Army of Aden > - Mujaheddin e Khalq > - Kurdistan Workers' Party (Partiya Karkeren Kurdistan) (PKK) > - Revolutionary Peoples' Liberation Party - Front (Devrimci Halk Kurtulus > Partisi - Cephesi) (DHKP-C) > - Basque Homeland and Liberty (Euskadi ta Askatasuna) (ETA) > - 17 November Revolutionary Organisation (N17) > > Under section 3(3)(a) of the Act, I may by order add an organisation to > Schedule 2, where I believe that it is concerned in terrorism, as defined in > section 1 of the Act. I am entirely satisfied that the organisations named > above are "concerned in terrorism" as set out in section 3(5) of the Act, > and have, after careful consideration, decided to exercise my discretion to > proscribe them. The draft Order is subject to the affirmative resolution > procedure. There will therefore be a debate in both Houses on my > recommendations. If approved by Parliament, the proscriptions will take > effect on the day after I sign the Order. To assist consideration by both > Houses, I have placed in the Libraries, the Vote Office, and the Printed > Paper Office, copies of a Note setting out a brief summary in respect of > each organisation named in the draft Order. > > The Act provides for an appeal process. After the Order comes into force, it > will be open for any of the organisations so proscribed, or any person > affected by their proscription, to make application to me for > deproscription. If that application is refused, the Act provides for an > appeal to a new independent tribunal, the Proscribed Organisations Appeal > Commission, established by the Terrorism Act. > > > > > _________________________________________________________________________ > To Post a message, send it to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To subscribe, send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
