{"id":52979,"date":"2019-02-26T10:38:57","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T10:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=52979"},"modified":"2019-02-26T10:38:57","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T10:38:57","slug":"britain-to-ban-hezbollah-under-anti-terror-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=52979","title":{"rendered":"Britain to ban Hezbollah under anti-terror laws"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"International desk: Britain on Monday said it will ban the political wing of Hezbollah, making membership of the movement or inviting support for it a crime.<\/p>\n

The decision follows outrage over the display of the Hezbollah flag, which features a Kalashnikov assault rifle, at pro-Palestinian demonstrations in London.<\/p>\n

\u201cHezbollah is continuing in its attempts to destabilize the fragile situation in the Middle East,\u201d Home Secretary Sajid Javid said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are no longer able to distinguish between their already banned military wing and the political party. Because of this, I have taken the decision to proscribe the group in its entirety,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The ban is subject to a vote in parliament this week.<\/p>\n

Hezbollah is a Shiite militant movement established in 1982 during the Lebanese civil war.<\/p>\n

Its capture of two Israeli soldiers in 2006 sparked a 34-day war in which 1,200 people were killed.<\/p>\n

The movement, now a major political party in Lebanon, holds three cabinet posts.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is clear the distinction between Hezbollah\u2019s military and political wings does not exist,\u201d Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said in Monday\u2019s statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis does not change our ongoing commitment to Lebanon, with whom we have a broad and strong relationship,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The government is also banning Ansarul Islam, an extremist group which emerged near the border between Mali and Burkina Faso in 2016, and the Group to Support Islam and Muslims (JNIM), which has sworn allegiance to Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.<\/p>\n

Britain currently has 74 international terrorist organizations proscribed under the Terrorism Act 2000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

International desk: Britain on Monday said it will ban the political wing of Hezbollah, making membership of the movement or inviting support for it a crime. The decision follows outrage over the display of the Hezbollah flag, which features a Kalashnikov assault rifle, at pro-Palestinian demonstrations in London. \u201cHezbollah is continuing in its attempts to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":52980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,14],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n