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Officer and three assailants killed in Tunisia resort attack
September 7, 2020 By Faith Matters

Officer and three assailants killed in Tunisia resort attack

Tunisian forces have shot dead three suspected Islamic militants who rammed their vehicle into security officers and attacked them with knives, killing one and injuring another in the coastal resort town of Sousse. Sousse was the site of Tunisia’s deadliest extremist attack in 2015, when a massacre killed 38 people, most of them British tourists. […]

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Probationary Met officer to face trial over alleged terror group membership
August 14, 2020 By Faith Matters

Probationary Met officer to face trial over alleged terror group membership

A probationary Metropolitan Police officer will face trial next year for allegedly being a member of the banned neo-Nazi group National Action. Benjamin Hannam, 22, of Enfield, north London, is also accused of lying on his police application and vetting forms. He allegedly claimed he was not a member of National Action, which was outlawed […]

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Charity reports streets wiped out by Beirut explosion
August 5, 2020 By Faith Matters

Charity reports streets wiped out by Beirut explosion

A charity has reported entire streets wiped out following a large explosion in Lebanon. At least 50 people have been killed and 2,700 injured by the blast near Beirut’s harbour on Tuesday evening. Authorities in Lebanon are yet to announce the cause of the explosion. Save the Children said in a statement that members of […]

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Mayor tells vigil Reading community ‘shall not be divided’ by terror attack
June 27, 2020 By Faith Matters

Mayor tells vigil Reading community ‘shall not be divided’ by terror attack

The mayor of Reading has said the town’s community “shall not be divided” by the recent terror attack at a vigil held in memory of the victims one week on. Cllr David Stevens said the Berkshire town would always be “inclusive and diverse” at a private memorial event held in Market Place on Saturday evening. […]

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GCHQ reveals last message from German Second World War network
May 8, 2020 By Faith Matters

GCHQ reveals last message from German Second World War network

The last recorded message to be intercepted from a German military communications network at the end of the Second World War has been revealed to the public for the first time. It shows that Britain’s Bletchley Park code breakers carried on working in the dying days of the war to ensure there would be no […]

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Home Office confirms environmentalists referred to anti-terror programme
April 14, 2020 By Faith Matters

Home Office confirms environmentalists referred to anti-terror programme

Environmental campaigners have been referred to the Home Office’s anti-terror Prevent programme amid fears they may become radicalised, it has emerged. Data obtained by The Times newspaper under Freedom of Information laws found at least 45 activists were referred to Prevent over alleged environmental extremism between April 2016 and March last year. The figures come […]

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Joint Statement: Why Chatham House must do better in vetting speakers
March 3, 2020 By Faith Matters

Joint Statement: Why Chatham House must do better in vetting speakers

Faith Matters and the ‘Never Again’ Association are concerned that a failure to vet speakers with anti-Muslim, xenophobic and other bigoted views undermines the importance of the Polish-British Belvedere Forum, which is being hosted at Chatham House today and tomorrow. The event, which brings together dignitaries, civil society leaders, academics, business, media, and diaspora voices, […]

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Tommy Robinson ‘arrested over assault at Center Parcs pool’
March 3, 2020 By Faith Matters

Tommy Robinson ‘arrested over assault at Center Parcs pool’

Former English Defence League leader Tommy Robinson has been arrested after a fight broke out at a holiday park, it has been reported. The Sun said on Monday that 37-year-old Robinson got into a row with another man in the pool at Woburn Forest Center Parcs in Bedfordshire. Witnesses claimed that Robinson, whose real name […]

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Germany’s leaders look to blunt advance of extreme right following mass shooting
February 22, 2020 By Faith Matters

Germany’s leaders look to blunt advance of extreme right following mass shooting

Germany’s leaders are struggling to work out how to counter a recent rise in right-wing hate, 75 years after the Nazis were driven from power. Wednesday’s shooting rampage that began at a hookah bar in the Frankfurt suburb of Hanau was Germany’s third deadly far-right attack in a matter of months and came at a […]

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‘Institutional squeamishness’ over tackling violent extremism in jails
February 21, 2020 By Faith Matters

‘Institutional squeamishness’ over tackling violent extremism in jails

Violent extremism is “clearly not under control” in jails and there is an “institutional squeamishness” among Government officials to tackle the problem, a former prison governor has claimed. Ian Acheson, who led an independent review of Islamist extremism behind bars in 2016, made the comments after it is feared a convicted killer allegedly attempted a […]

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