Some criticize police and other authorities for focusing too hard on right-wing terrorism and artificially inflating the threat for political reasons.
He wrote on Twitter: “The main principal offence charged is disseminating terrorist publications and my educated guess that this is taking place online.” Jonathan Hall QC, the UK’s independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, told The Independent newspaper that the age and race figures were “consistent with increased targeting of young suspected right-wing terrorists operating online.” Ideally, we would identify when a young person is being led down the path towards terrorism activity and use the Prevent program to try and put them on a different path.” Senior National Coordinator for Counter Terrorism Policing Deputy Assistant Commissioner Dean Haydon said: “We are very concerned that children are becoming an increasing proportion of our arrests. It said that the coronavirus pandemic had caused a broad drop in terror arrests across the board - with the exception of children. Those of Asian ethnic appearance accounted for 26 percent of terrorist-related arrests, down 12 percentage points.” “Arrests of persons of white ethnic appearance accounted for 54 percent of arrests, up 10 percentage points on the previous year. They showed that 101 white people were arrested on suspicion of terror offenses, while just 49 people of Asian appearance were arrested within the same timeframe.Ī Home Office report said: “The proportion of white people arrested exceeded the proportion of Asian people arrested for the fourth consecutive year.
The UK also recorded a record number of children arrested on suspicion of terror offenses.įigures released by the Home Office on Thursday for the year up to September are based on the ethnic appearance of the arrestee as recorded by the arresting officer. LONDON: More than twice as many people of white ethnic appearance are being investigated for terror offenses by British authorities than those of Asian appearance, new figures show. The church claims to have 4 million followers in the Philippines and a further 2 million outside the country. The Philippine Consulate General in Los Angeles said it is closely monitoring the case and “will seek avenues to extend consular assistance to both the accused and the victims,” and the FBI has encouraged potential victims, or anyone with information about the church’s activities, to come forward. US authorities said the accused are believed to currently be in the Philippines. Under Quiboloy’s direction, the church administrators allegedly brought workers from the Philippines to the US and confiscated all forms of identification before forcing them to spend long hours illegally soliciting money for the organization. The indictment also mentions forced labor, labor trafficking, document servitude, marriage fraud and money laundering. The US Department of Justice said in a statement that an indictment unsealed on Thursday charged Quiboloy and his top administrators with “coercing girls and young women to have sex with the church’s leader under threats of ‘eternal damnation.’” That dismissal is now on appeal,” Guevarra said. “A complaint for rape, however, was filed against him last year in Davao City, but the same was dismissed. He said the Philippine government has not received any request from US authorities for Quiboloy’s extradition so far, and that the church leader is not facing any similar charges in the Philippines. Philippine Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra told reporters Quiboloy would not receive any special treatment as the Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking will “perform its mandate under the law regardless of the persons involved.” Whoever that concerns, the Philippines will cooperate,” Duterte’s acting spokesperson, Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles, said in a press briefing.Īsked whether or not Quiboloy would remain Duterte’s spiritual aide, Nograles said: “Let us just wait for the president to speak about that.” We will cooperate if there is an extradition request. “The Philippines always cooperates when it comes to extradition or processes of extradition. The church backed Duterte’s candidacy in 2016 and its leader has been known as the president’s spiritual adviser. US prosecutors on Thursday indicted the Kingdom of Jesus Christ founder, Apollo Quiboloy, 71, and two of his top administrators on charges ranging from conspiracy and sex trafficking of children to fraud and coercion. MANILA: The Philippine government said on Friday it will cooperate with US prosecutors if the founder of a Philippines-based church, who is an ally to President Rodrigo Duterte, needs to be extradited to face sex trafficking charges.
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