Contents

1 What is a proscribed organisation? 11

1.1 How is terrorism defined? 11

1.2 What is an organisation? 12

1.3 What policy factors are considered? 12

2 Proscription before the Terrorism Act 2000 13

2.1 Proscribed organisations in the UK and Northern Ireland under precursor legislation 13

3 Proscription under the Terrorism Act 2000 15

3.1 The original list of proscribed organisations 15

3.2 Adding and removing organisations to the proscribed list 15

3.3 Grounds for proscription 15

3.4 Aliases 16

3.5 Proscription offences and sanctions 17

Offences 17

Sanctions and penalties 18

3.6 How proscription relates to other executive powers 18

3.7 The current list of proscribed organisations 18

Recent additions 19

4 Appeals against proscription 29

4.1 How can an organisation be de-proscribed? 29

4.2 Which organisations have been de-proscribed? 30

5 Analysis: Purposes and effects of proscription 31

5.1 What is the purpose of proscribing organisations? 31

5.2 Does proscription work to reduce terrorism? 31

5.3 Reviews and recommendations of proscription rules 32

Recommendations of Lord Anderson 32

Recommendations of Max Hill KC 34

Recommendations of Jonathan Hall KC 35

6 Annex: Proscribed organisations 36

Al-Qa'ida 36

Egyptian Islamic Jihad 37

Al-Gama'at al-Islamiya 37

Armed Islamic Group (Groupe Islamique Armee) (GIA) 38

Salafist Group for Call and Combat (Groupe Salafiste pour la Predication et le Combat) (GSPC) 38

International Sikh Youth Federation [De-proscribed March 2016] 39

Babbar Khalsa 39

Harakat Mujahideen 40

Jaish e Mohammed 40

Lashkar e Tayyaba 41

Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) 41

Hizballah External Security Organisation [Substituted in 2008 by “The military wing of Hizballah” including the Hizballah External Security Organisation] 41

Hamas-Izz al-Din al-Qassem Brigades 42

Palestinian Islamic Jihad - Shaqaqi 43

Abu Nidal Organisation 44

Islamic Army of Aden 45

Mujaheddin e Khalq (or PMOI) [De-proscribed June 2008] 45

Kurdistan Workers' Party (Partiya Karkeren Kurdistan) (PKK) 46

Revolutionary Peoples' Liberation Party - Front (Devrimci Halk Kurtulus Partisi - Cephesi) (DHKP-C) 47

Basque Homeland and Liberty (Euskadi ta Askatasuna) (ETA) 47

17 November Revolutionary Organisation (N17) 48

Jeemah Islamiyah (JI) 49

Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) 49

Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) 50

Asbat Al-Ansar ('League of Partisans' or 'Band of Helpers') 50

Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) [De-proscribed in 2019] 51

Groupe Islamique Combattant Marocain (GICM) 51

Ansar Al Islam 52

Al Ittihad Al Islamia (AIAI) 52

Islamic Jihad Union - formerly known as Islamic Jihad Group 53

Ansar Al Sunna (AS) (“Devotees of the Sunna”) 54

Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin (HIG) 54

Harakat-ul-Mujahideen/Alami (HuM/A) and Jundallah 55

Sipah-e Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) Aka Millat-e Islami Pakistan (MIP) and Splinter group: Lashkar-e Jhangvi (LeJ) 55

Khuddam ul-Islam (KuI) and Splinter group: Jamaat ul-Furquan (JuF) 56

Harakat-ul-Jihad-ul-Islami (HUJI) 56

Harakat-ul-Jihad-ul-Islami (Bangladesh) (HUJI-B) 57

Al-Ghurabaa & The Saved Sect (AG and SS) 58

Al-Ghurabaa (AG) 58

The Saved Sect (SS) 58

Baluchistan Liberation Army (BLA) 58

Teyrebaz Azadiye Kurdistan (TAK) 59

Jammat-ul Mujahideen Bangladesh 59

Tehrik Nefaz-e Shari’at Muhammadi 59

Military wing of Hizballah, including the Jihad Council and all units reporting to it (including the Hizballah External Security Organisation)” in substitution for the existing entry “Hizballah External Security Organisation” 60

Al Shabaab 60

Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan 61

Indian Mujahideen 61

Ansarul Muslimina Fi Biladis Sudan (Vanguard for the protection of Muslims in Black Africa) (Ansaru) 62

Jama’atu Ahli Sunna Lidda Awati Wal Jihad (Boko Haram) 62

Minbar Ansar Deen (MAD) (Ansar Al Sharia UK) 62

Imarat Kavkaz (IK) (the Caucasus Emirate) 63

Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis (ABM) 63

Al Murabitun 64

Ansar Al Sharia-Tunisia (AAS-T) 65

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham) (Dawat al Islamiya fi Iraq wa al Sham (DAISh)) 66

Turkiye Halk Kurtulus Partisi-Cephesi (THKP-C) 67

Kateeba al-Kawthar (KaK) 67

Abdallah Azzam Brigades including the Ziyad al-Jarrah Battalions 67

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine General Command (PFLP-GC) 68

Ansar al-Sharia-Benghazi (Partisans of Islamic Law) 69

Ajnad Misr (Soldiers of Egypt) 69

Jaysh al Khalifatu Islamiya (Army of the Islamic Caliphate) (Majahideen of the Caucasus and the Levant) 70

Jund al-Aqsa (Soldiers of Al-Aqsa) 70

Jund al Khalifah-Algeria (Soldiers of the Caliphate in Algeria) 71

Jamaat ul-Ahrar (JuA) 71

The Haqqani Network (HQN) 72

Global Islamic Media Front (including GIMF Bangla Team (Ansarullah BanglaTeam) (Ansar-alIslam)) 73

Mujahedeen Indonesia Timur (East Indonesia Mujahedeen) 74

Turkestan Islamic Party (East Turkestan Islamic Party) (East Turkestan Islamic Movement) (East Turkestan Jihadist Movement) (Hizb al-Islami al-Turkistani) 74

Jamaah Anshorut Daulah 75

National Action 76

Al-Ashtar Brigades 76

Al-Mukhtar Brigades 77

Hasam 77

Liwa al-Thawra 77

Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin (De-proscription) 77

The Revolutionary Peoples’ Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) 77

ISIS 78

Hizballah 78

Jammat Nusrat al-Islam Wal-Muslimin 78

Ansaroul Islam 78

Sonnenkrieg Division 79

Feuerkrieg Division 79

Atomwaffen Division (AWD), including National Socialist Order (NSO) 80

The Base 80

Hamas 81

Wagner Group 81

Hizb ut-Tahrir 82

Terrorgram 82

Palestine Action 83

Maniacs Murder Cult 83

Russian Imperial Movement 83

Name change revocation: Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham 83