Security and Counterterrorism
France adopts new anti-terrorism law
France’s lower house of parliament has approved a new anti-terrorism law intended to bring an end to a nearly two-year-long state of emergency. The law will incorporate several measures first authorized under the emergency arrangement. They include easier searches of homes and confining individuals to their home towns, without judicial approval. The state of emergency…
France fears Iran’s Revolutionary Guard terror listing would fuel crisis
France said on Monday it was worried that designating Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) as a terrorist group could exacerbate tensions in the region, and appeared to urge Tehran to show restraint. “In the context of regional instability, France is vigilant on any actions that could exacerbate the current crises,” foreign ministry spokeswoman Agnes Romatet-Espagne told…
Two Frenchmen charged with plotting terror attack from their prison cells
Prosecutors have filed terror charges against two suspected jihadists believed to have been planning to carry out an attack after their upcoming release from prison, sources close to the case said Monday. The men discussed the would-be plot, which included possibly taking hostages or machine-gunning victims, while they were serving time in Fresnes prison south…
Report on racism in the British criminal justice system finds surge in Muslim prison population
Labour MP David Lammy authored a report which found a surge in the Muslim prison population and found lack of data on why this population has surged. The report was commissioned by David Cameron in 2016. There has been a 50% rise in the share of prisoners who are Muslim in only ten years. Muslims…
British leaders are concerned about anti-Muslim sentiment following the Parsons Green Attack
Some British leaders and public figures have responded to the recent terrorist attack in the London Underground in relation to British Muslim communities. The former head of the UK’s domestic security service, Eliza Manningham, criticized the Islamophobic related to the recent attack on the London Underground at Parsons Green. Manningham said that Donald Trump had…