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UK state threats bill could pull British journalists into terror prosecutions, experts say (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 1 day ago by geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml to c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk

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David Anderson, a former UK independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, has warned that unless the bill is amended it could accidentally pull journalists working in danger-zone countries into prosecutions for terrorism.

The new anti-terror powers are designed to allow the UK government to label state-backed groups as terrorist organisations, enabling them to ban groups such as Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC).

The legal change, which is expected to complete its final parliamentary stages this week, would also create new criminal offences for people who “support, assist and obtain material benefits” from groups formally listed as state-supported threats.

However, there are concerns that the national security (state threats) bill would in practice go beyond its main aim of targeting proxies, and could end up penalising foreign correspondents as well.

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[–] als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 day ago

They have also offered the reassurance that those potentially caught by the new offence would only be prosecuted if the attorney general considered it was in the public interest.

By this they mean, in arms dealer's interests.

[–] tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 3 points 1 day ago

It also includes journalists.

[–] crapwittyname@feddit.uk 1 points 1 day ago

Paul Holden's take