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Home Office to ban Islamist political group Hizb ut-Tahrir

Source: PA

The government has moved to proscribe extremist Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir as a terrorist organisation.

Security minister Tom Tugendhat said the Islamic fundamentalist group “encourages and promotes terrorism” as he condemned its “disgraceful celebration of Hamas’ appalling attacks on Israel”.

Home secretary James Cleverly has to proscribe the Sunni Islamist political organisation under the Terrorism Act.

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