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Two Sonnenkrieg members have been jailed after encouraging an assault on Prince Harry for marrying a girl of blended race.
Becoming a member of the far-right group Sonnenkrieg Divison is about to grow to be unlawful, below a proscription order to be put to MPs.
The order would additionally label two different teams aliases of one other proscribed organisation – the Kurdistan Employees’ Celebration (PKK).
Legal guidelines as a result of come into impact on Tuesday can even recognise System Resistance Community as an alias of the already banned neo-Nazi group Nationwide Motion.
Membership of the teams might end in a 10 yr jail sentence.
Dwelling Secretary Priti Patel mentioned: “Current assaults right here and in Germany have highlighted the menace we proceed to face from violent extremism.
“By proscribing these teams we’re making it a lot more durable for them to unfold their hateful rhetoric.”
In June 2019, two members of the Sonnenkrieg Division – Michal Szewczuk and Oskar Dunn-Koczorowski – have been jailed after encouraging an assault on Prince Harry for marrying a girl of blended race.
The choice to ban membership of the organisation was taken following a gathering of the Proscription Assessment Group.
The proscription order – which is topic to parliamentary approval – additionally proposes treating the teams – Teyre Azadiye Kurdistan (TAK) and Hezen Parastina Gel (HPG) – as aliases for the PKK.
The PKK already appears on the Home Office’s Proscribed Terrorist Organisation list.
In line with a Home of Commons Library report, the PKK “doesn’t have any overt illustration within the UK however operates covertly and has some help among the many Kurdish group”.