(Arab News) Ministers in the UK government are planning to expand the country’s treason laws to prosecute people who aid a state or organization in war against Britain.
The move looks to target Islamists who traveled to Syria to join Daesh during the country’s civil war, the Times reported.
If successful, the expansion of the treason laws would overturn 650-year-old legal norms in the country.
Britain’s 1351 Treason Act is one of the oldest pieces of legislation in the country.
It was last used in 1945 to convict William Joyce, dubbed Lord Haw-Haw, who broadcasted pro-Nazi Germany radio shows during the Second World War.
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