That legislation makes it illegal to stay anything even remotely non critical about a “proscribed organisation” like Hamas. It is extraordinarily repressive.
Comment on Journalist Richard Medhurst arrested under Britain’s Terrorism Act
blackn1ght@feddit.uk 2 months agoHe claims he’s the first person to be arrested under this law, that was introduced in 2000, so he must have said something pretty “extra” if what he claims is true.
Mrkawfee@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Streamwave@feddit.uk 2 months ago
I don’t have a problem with any element of that law.
I’m profoundly comfortable with people being arrested and imprisoned for substantial sentences for expressing support for Hamas and similar Jihadi terror groups.
Mrkawfee@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Only a handful of countries consider Hamas a terror group. Funnily enough these countries also support Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Streamwave@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Only a handful of countries consider Hamas a terror group. Funnily enough these are the same countries that are complicit in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Those are also more or less the only countries I’d trust to be able to correctly identify a terrorist group.
This is a “leopards ate my face” law. It’s fine until you get caught up in it however unlikely that appears now.
I simply don’t support terrorist organisations. It isn’t difficult.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 months ago
You say only a handful of countries and then you list a shit ton of countries. Made to look smaller by lumping all of the EU into one country.
How many members are in the EU again?
Emperor@feddit.uk 2 months ago
The Canary has some details:
They also explain that he’s not the first “journalist” to be arrested under this law.