maandag 13 januari 2020

Priti Patel: Criminalizing the People


Patel defends police 

over Extinction Rebellion inclusion on 

extremist list

Home secretary accepts XR is not terror group but says assessment has to be based on ‘security risks’
Priti Patel
 Priti Patel: ‘Everything has to be based and calibrated upon risk.’ Photograph: Anthony Harvey/Rex/Shutterstock

The UK home secretary, Priti Patel, has defended anti-terrorist police for putting the Extinction Rebellion environmental protest group on a list of extremist ideologies, saying it was important to look at “a range of security risks”.
While accepting that XR was not a terrorist organisation, Patel told LBC radio that such assessment had to be “based in terms of risk to the public, security risks, security threats”.
Diane Abbott, Labour’s shadow home secretary, said Patel’s comments were “indefensible”. 
XR has threatened legal action after the Guardian revealed it had been placed on a list of ideologies that should be reported to the authorities running the Prevent anti-radicalisation programme. Police now say that was an error.
Sir Peter Fahy, who was head of Prevent from 2010 to 2015, subsequently told the Guardian that such categorisations risked Prevent losing confidence from communities.


Asked about Fahy’s comments, Patel defended the Prevent programme and the police’s actions.
“I think it’s important to reflect, when it comes to anti-terrorism, Prevent and the work that the government is doing, and has done for a considerable period of time – we are constantly looking at individuals, groups,” she said. “That’s right and that’s proper. But everything has to be based and calibrated upon risk.

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