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Articles by Dominic Casciani

Clerics & Preachers

How Anjem Choudary was convicted of directing terrorist organisation

July 23, 2024 Dominic Casciani, Daniel Sandford and Steve Swann  

(BBC) The extremist preacher Anjem Choudary has been found guilty of directing a terrorist organisation. Choudary, one of the most important radicalisers in the UK, was caught in an international undercover investigation into his long-banned organisation. Officers in the US and Canada […]

Government & Politics

Home Office to ban Hizb ut-Tahrir as terror group

January 15, 2024 Dominic Casciani  

(BBC) One of the most controversial Islamist groups in the UK, Hizb ut-Tahrir, is to be banned as a terrorist organisation, accused of praising the Hamas attacks. Home Secretary James Cleverly said the group was “antisemitic” and “actively promotes and encourages terrorism.” […]

Government & Politics

Small boats: Sunak to outline plan to stop migrant crossings

March 7, 2023 Michael Sheils McNamee and Dominic Casciani  

(BBC) A new law set to go before Parliament later will introduce new measures aimed at removing migrants entering the UK on small boats. The Illegal Migration Bill is set to prevent those arriving illegally from claiming asylum, and will block them […]

Children & Teens

Shamima Begum bid to regain UK citizenship rejected

February 22, 2023 Dominic Casciani and Sean Seddon  

(BBC) Shamima Begum has lost her challenge over the decision to deprive her of British citizenship despite a “credible” case she was trafficked. Mr Justice Jay told the semi-secret court dealing with her case that her appeal had been fully dismissed. The […]

Government & Politics

Prevent counter-terror scheme lambasted in review

February 8, 2023 Dominic Casciani  

(BBC) The UK’s scheme to prevent terrorism has “apparently failed” repeatedly to identify attackers, a highly critical review has concluded. The report from the Home Office’s hand-picked reviewer says the Prevent strategy has lost its way. William Shawcross said the nationwide system […]

Government & Politics

Rwanda asylum policy: Migrants granted right to challenge

January 16, 2023 Dominic Casciani  

(BBC) Migrants facing potential removal to Rwanda under the Home Office’s relocation scheme have won permission to challenge the policy. Last month the High Court ruled that the scheme was lawful. Today’s ruling means there is no prospect of flights leaving immediately […]

Crime

Fewer than 100 migrants arrested for arriving in UK illegally

December 12, 2022 Dominic Casciani  

(BBC) Fewer than 100 people who crossed the English Channel in small boats have been arrested for arriving illegally in the UK under a new power to deter them. The figure represents 0.3% of those who have crossed since the law was […]

News: Europe

Sir David Amess: How MP’s killer was a textbook radicalisation

April 11, 2022 Dominic Casciani  

(BBC) Ali Harbi Ali was born in Southwark, south London, growing up in Croydon. A British national of Somali heritage, he became radicalised by the war in Syria and ultimately decided to kill an MP. He booked an appointment for 15 October, […]

Immigration

Liverpool bomber lied to stay in UK, documents released to BBC show

January 23, 2022 Dominic Casciani  

(BBC) New details have emerged about the Liverpool bomber Emad Al Swealmeen’s failed asylum attempts — and the false information he used to make his cases. A previously confidential 2015 asylum judgment, released to the BBC, reveals how his claim of being […]

Government & Politics

Liverpool bomb: Judges had refused attacker permission to appeal to stay in UK

November 16, 2021 Dominic Casciani  

(BBC) The Liverpool bomb attacker was a failed asylum seeker who had been refused permission by judges to appeal to stay in the country. It had been reported — but unconfirmed — that Emad Al Swealmeen lost his asylum claim as long […]

Legal

Terror offender monitoring rules lawful

April 14, 2021 Dominic Casciani  

(BBC) The High Court has upheld the Ministry of Justice’s power to impose tighter curbs on the movements of convicted terrorists in the wake of the Fishmongers’ Hall attack. Two judges rejected challenges from an associate of the man who carried out […]

Government & Politics

Judges reject terror offender’s challenge of early release ban

July 30, 2020 Dominic Casciani  

(BBC) An attempt by terrorism offender Mohammed Zahir Khan to overturn a ban on early release from prison has been thrown out by the High Court. Two judges said Parliament had been right to end automatic release halfway through a sentence. The […]

Law Enforcement

Safiyya Shaikh: How undercover operation caught a drug addict jihadist

July 3, 2020 Dominic Casciani  

(BBC) A supporter of the banned Islamic State terror group has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 14 years after admitting a plot to blow herself up in a bomb attack on St Paul’s Cathedral in London. Muslim convert […]

Legal

UK broke law over IS ‘Beatles’ by passing information to US

March 25, 2020 Dominic Casciani  

(BBC) The UK acted unlawfully by passing evidence to the US that could lead to the execution of two British members of an Islamic State murder squad. The Supreme Court said former Home Secretary Sajid Javid should not have passed information on […]

Deradicalization

Top psychologist: No certainty terror offenders can be ‘cured’

January 2, 2020 Dominic Casciani  

(BBC) The psychologist behind the UK’s main deradicalisation programme for terror offenders says it can never be certain that attackers have been “cured.” Christopher Dean told the BBC some terror offenders who take part in his Healthy Identity Intervention (HII) scheme appear […]

Government & Politics

Islamic State ‘Beatles’ El Shafee Elsheikh and Alexanda Kotey could be tried in UK

July 30, 2019 Dominic Casciani  

(BBC) British investigators have enough evidence to prosecute two of the so-called Islamic State “Beatles” in the UK, the Supreme Court has been told. El Shafee Elsheikh and Alexanda Kotey are accused of belonging to an IS cell which is thought to […]

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