Home Office bans two more neo-Nazi groups linked to National Action
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Neo-Nazi supporters have been banned from involvement with two groups serving as aliases of the proscribed National Action campaign.
Home Secretary Amber Rudd today announced that Scottish Dawn and NS131 would also be banned from tomorrow.
Affiliation with the groups or encouraging others to support them will carry a sentence of up to 10 years behind bars.
National Action was banned last December after security services decided it was “concerned in terrorism”.
Its online material encouraged people to mimic attacks such as the one that killed former Labour MP Jo Cox and that on the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando.
Ms Rudd said today: "National Action is a vile racist, homophobic and anti-Semitic group which glorifies violence and stirs up hatred while promoting their poisonous ideology and I will not allow them to masquerade under different names.
“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.”
She added: “Our priority as government will always be to maintain the safety and security of families and communities across the United Kingdom and we will continue to identify and ban any terrorist group which threatens this, whatever their ideology.”
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