(AFP) The Austrian justice ministry said Wednesday it would take into account fierce criticisms levelled by judges and the opposition at proposals for an anti-terror law formulated following a deadly jihadist terror attack.
In the days after the convicted sympathiser of the so-called Islamic State (IS) group killed four people in central Vienna in November, Chancellor Sebastian Kurz of the centre-right People’s Party (OeVP) promised tough new anti-terror legislation.
The official review period for the draft legislation ended on Tuesday.
Its central articles would allow for released terror offenders to be monitored “electronically,” which is not further defined.
It would also create an offence of “religious extremism,” which experts say is redundant due to existing criminal law.
