Scottish Dawn and NS131, both aliases of neo-Nazi group National Action, are to be banned under UK terror law, the government has announced.<\/p>\n
National Action became the first far-right organisation to be banned in the UK\u00a0last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n Home secretary Amber Rudd said she would not allow the “vile racist” group to “masquerade under different names”.<\/p>\n Being a member or inviting support for the organisations will be a criminal offence.<\/p>\n It will carry a sentence of up to 10 years in prison. The order comes into effect on Friday.<\/p>\n “By extending the proscription of National Action, we are halting the spread of a poisonous ideology and stopping its membership from growing – protecting those who could be at risk of radicalisation,” Ms Rudd said.<\/p>\n National Action’s propaganda featured violent imagery including material inferring that acts, including the murder of Jo Cox MP, should be emulated.<\/p>\n Scottish Dawn has described itself as a “new Identitarian social movement formed from various organisations in 2017 to develop a coherent conception of Scottish identity and secure its place within Scottish politics”.<\/p>\n NS131 (National Socialist Anti-Capitalist Action) is “a platform dedicated to promoting and spreading NS street art and physical propaganda”, according to its website.<\/p>\n On Wednesday,\u00a011 men were arrested<\/a>\u00a0under anti-terror laws as part of a national investigation into National Action. All were suspected National Action members.<\/p>\n Earlier this month, three men – including two British soldiers – were\u00a0charged under anti-terror laws<\/a>\u00a0with being members of National Action.<\/p>\n There are currently\u00a071 organisations<\/a>\u00a0– 70 of them international – proscribed under the Terrorism Act 2000. A further 14 organisations in Northern Ireland were proscribed under previous legislation.<\/p>\n Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"