UK: Priti Patel defends inclusion of Extinction Rebellion on UK terror list

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The UK Home Secretary has defended the inclusion of the non-violent protest group Extinction Rebellion in a police document on extremist ideologies. This is the latest in a long line of non-violent individuals and campaign groups being labelled as "extremist" by the police.

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"The home secretary, Priti Patel, has defended anti-terror 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”."

See: Priti Patel defends inclusion of Extinction Rebellion on UK terror list (The Guardian, link):

Background: Terrorism police list Extinction Rebellion as extremist ideology (The Guardian, link)

Some previous incidents: Files on politicians, journalists and peace protestors held by police in "domestic extremist" database (Statewatch News, November 2013)

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