Django
25th March 2006, 13:48
Hi, I'm new here and I have a practical question.
If I understand it correctly, the UK now has a law which makes 'glorifying' terrorism a crime.
I have some very simple questions about this:
1. does it apply to all people in the UK or only to UK nationals?
2. what about the responsability or liability of an internet-host in the UK, showing websites that are created by (non-)British nationals outside the UK and that could be interpreted as 'glorifying' terrorism?
3. It's just that I'm beginning to worry a bit. I support the Papuan resistance in Irian Jaya (the people who recently killed 5 members of the Indonesian security forces during their protest against the U.S. mining giant Freeport McMoRan). These people are linked to the broader West Papua Independence Movement and to informal resistance organisations.
Now I received an opportunity of funding a project which benefits this movement (indirectly).
Obviously, the Indonesian government is beginning to play the "terrorist" card, labelling all resistance fighters (even the unorganised ones) as terrorists.
So if I go ahead and publish a website or even fund one of those groups, would I fall under the UK law?
I'm not a British national, but say I was to travel to the UK, could I be arrested?
All this is purely hypothetical, I know, and I don't want to be paranoid. I'm just trying to make the exercise to see how far the UK's new law could stretch.
All help is welcome.
If I understand it correctly, the UK now has a law which makes 'glorifying' terrorism a crime.
I have some very simple questions about this:
1. does it apply to all people in the UK or only to UK nationals?
2. what about the responsability or liability of an internet-host in the UK, showing websites that are created by (non-)British nationals outside the UK and that could be interpreted as 'glorifying' terrorism?
3. It's just that I'm beginning to worry a bit. I support the Papuan resistance in Irian Jaya (the people who recently killed 5 members of the Indonesian security forces during their protest against the U.S. mining giant Freeport McMoRan). These people are linked to the broader West Papua Independence Movement and to informal resistance organisations.
Now I received an opportunity of funding a project which benefits this movement (indirectly).
Obviously, the Indonesian government is beginning to play the "terrorist" card, labelling all resistance fighters (even the unorganised ones) as terrorists.
So if I go ahead and publish a website or even fund one of those groups, would I fall under the UK law?
I'm not a British national, but say I was to travel to the UK, could I be arrested?
All this is purely hypothetical, I know, and I don't want to be paranoid. I'm just trying to make the exercise to see how far the UK's new law could stretch.
All help is welcome.