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On February
19, 2001, Terrorism Act 2000 came into force in the United
Kingdom. On the last day of the month, the British Home
Office proscribed 21 terrorist organisations. Of these,
the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (HuM),
the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE),
Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaida, Babbar Khalsa, International
Sikh Youth Federation (ISYF), Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM),
and the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT)
operate in the South Asian region.
The
other groups that have been proscribed include the Islamic
Jihad (Egypt), Al-Gamaat al-Islamiya (Egypt), Armed Islamic
Group (Algeria), Hizballah (Lebanon), Hamas (Israel/PA),
Islamic Jihad (Israel/PA), Abu Nidal (Palestinian), Mujahideen
Khalq (Iranian dissidents/Iraq), Kurdistan Workers' Party
(Turkey), Revolutionary Peoples' Liberation Party - Front
(Turkey), ETA (Basque separatists/Spain), November 17 (Greece),
Salafist Group for Call and Combat (Algeria) and Islamic
Army of Aden (Yemen).
Presented
below is the complete text of Terrorism Act 2000.
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