Terror watchdog condemns WhatsApp for lowering UK users’ minimum age to 13 Jonathan Hall, Britain’s reviewer of terrorism legislation, says more children could be exposed to encrypted extremist content The Guardian - UK · Apr 18, 2024
Outlawing Iran's IRGC as terrorist organisation would have 'no benefit', UK watchdog claims Proscription of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps was under review by the Government following the drone and missile barrage fired at Israel by Iran Evening Standard · Apr 15, 2024
Calling Gaza protesters extremist risks dividing UK, says government adviser Exclusive: Dame Sara Khan warns that framing demonstrations as Islamist extremism is ‘far-fetched and untrue’ The Guardian - UK · Mar 8, 2024
'Prosecute threats to MPs as terrorism', watchdog urges People who make online threats to kill or rape politicians should be prosecuted as terrorists, the government’s terror watchdog said on Wednesday as a £31 million security package to protect MPs was announced by the Home Office. Evening Standard · Feb 28, 2024
Online safety rules have ‘blind spot’ to radicalisation of children, terror watchdog warns Warning that proposals by Ofcom - responsible for protecting the public from 'illegal harms' under the Online Safety Act - fail to treat young people as being at particular risk Evening Standard · Jan 24, 2024
Terror police chief calls for new ways to tackle online hate material Matt Jukes said the radicalising effect of hate propaganda had already been recognised in official reports as a trigger for the 2017 terrorist attacks in London Evening Standard · Jan 16, 2024
Adviser urges Rishi Sunak not to change law against glorifying terrorism Independent reviewer says amendments in law will cause ‘excessive damage’ to right to free speech The Independent UK · Nov 23, 2023
Adviser warns UK government against tightening laws on glorifying terrorism Independent reviewer says change could harm freedom of speech and further strain overtaxed security services The Guardian - UK · Nov 23, 2023
Pro-Palestine march on Armistice Day ‘risks extreme right-wing terrorist backlash' Stark warning about dangers of allowing Saturday’s planned march to go ahead Evening Standard · Nov 6, 2023
New law after Manchester Arena attack ‘risks discrimination’ Martyn’s law has been created to make venues more secure against terror attacks Evening Standard · Jul 26, 2023
Met Police abused anti-terror laws by arresting French publisher, review says Ernest Moret was detained by police at London St Pancras station under counter-terror powers The Independent UK · Jul 21, 2023
Arrest of French publisher in London referred to police watchdog Report says detention of Ernest Moret was wrong after he was held for almost 24 hours by counter-terrorist police The Guardian - UK · Jul 21, 2023
Met police admit downloading sim of French publisher, lawyer claims Ernest Moret had phone and laptop seized after arrest by counter-terrorism police in London in April The Guardian - UK · Jun 27, 2023
AI poses national security threat, warns terror watchdog Security services fear the new technology could be used to groom vulnerable people The Guardian - UK · Jun 4, 2023
Evening Standard · Mar 7, 2023 Use civil orders, urges watchdog, after record child terrorism arrests Record numbers being arrested by police after viewing extremist content online but many are ‘not really terrorists’, said Jonathan Hall KC
The Independent UK · Mar 1, 2023 Shamima Begum return would not be a ‘moral exoneration’, says terror watchdog Jonathan Hall KC said failing to permit her to return could lead the UK to be an ‘outlier’ in Europe.
Manchester Evening News · Feb 27, 2023 Terror watchdog warns that Shamima Begum should be allowed back in the UK Jonathan Hall KC argues that Shamima Begum and other British women like her should be allowed back in the UK
Wales Online · Feb 27, 2023 Let Shamima Begum come back to the UK, terror watchdog says Jonathan Hall KC, the reviewer of terrorism legislation, is expected to say Britain should match allies such as the United States
The Independent UK · Feb 27, 2023 Shamima Begum should be allowed to come back to UK, says terror watchdog Ms Begum was 15 when she travelled from Bethnal Green, east London, through Turkey and into territory controlled by the so-called Islamic State.
The Guardian - UK · Feb 27, 2023 Shamima Begum should be allowed to return to UK – terrorism adviser Government terrorism laws reviewer Jonathan Hall KC joins growing number of voices opposing exclusion
Evening Standard · Feb 27, 2023 Shamima Begum should be allowed home, says terror watchdog British women who join the Islamic State should be allowed home, Jonathan Hall KC says
The Independent UK · Nov 20, 2022 Terrorists face longer behind bars for offences committed in prison Terrorist prisoners will have all offences committed in jail referred to police within one week for investigation.
The Guardian - UK · Nov 7, 2022 Most UK far-right attacks now by older men, says terrorism reviewer Jonathan Hall KC makes observation after firebomb attack at Dover migration centre by Andrew Leak, 66
The Guardian - UK · Oct 30, 2022 Experts fear rising global ‘incel’ culture could provoke terrorism Almost 1,000 references to misogyny and violent action are recorded each day on dedicated incel forums