Terrorism
One man has been charged for murder and three other people have been detained in Christchurch after 49 people were killed in two mosque attacks. The attacks started during Friday prayers, with eyewitnesses reporting that the perpetrator entered and started shooting at random. The attack was streamed on Facebook. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has called it a terrorist attack.
At least 49 people have been killed by a suspected white supremacist in Christchurch.
'The vehicle has been deemed non-suspicious.'
The arrest came as part of an investigation into suspected “extreme right-wing” activity.
New figures show 273 people were arrested on suspicion of terrorism-related activity in Britain.
Counter-terror police have circulated images to mail sorting offices and transport workers
Nobody was injured despite one package detonating.
A property in Leeds was searched by police.
Human rights organisations on Wednesday urged judge to show leniency toward the defendants.
It comes just two days after a car bomb exploded in a suspected terror attack.
About Terrorism
Terrorism in the United Kingdom is considered by the Home Office to pose a "significant threat" to security and peace. Islamic extremism, far-right attacks and North Irish terrorists have posed the most recent threats to the United Kingdom. In the past 10 years, there have been several attempts to commit terrorist attacks in Britain. In August 2006 eleven individuals tried to detonate liquid explosives carried on board several airliners travelling from the UK to the US, with 24 suspects arrested in and around London. In June 2007, a car rammed into a terminal at the Glasgow International Airport. No casualties, aside from those of the driver, resulted. The most serious terrorist offence in recent times, since the Northern Irish peace process, was the 7 July 2005 London bombings conducted by four separate Islamist extremist suicide bombers, killing 56 people and injuring 700.