Russia’s Wagner to be declared a terrorist organisation by U.K.: report
The Hindu
Britain to proscribe Wagner Group as terrorist org. Home Sec. Suella Braverman: "They are terrorists, plain and simple." Proscription would make it criminal offence to belong/promote/arrange/carry logo in public. Group deployed in Ukraine after Russian invasion, enlisted prisoners to fight. U.K. Foreign Affairs Committee urged sanctions in July. Sanctions on Prigozhin, Wagner Group, individuals/businesses with links in CAR, Mali, Sudan. Prigozhin died in plane crash Aug. 23.
The Russian mercenary Wagner Group is set to be proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the U.K. Government, the BBC reported on Tuesday citing a draft order.
The draft order will allow Wagner's assets to be categorised as terrorist property and seized, BBC said, adding that it will be illegal to be a member or support the organisation according to the order.
U.K. Home Secretary Suella Braverman told the BBC that Wagner was "violent and destructive ... a military tool of Vladimir Putin's Russia".
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"They are terrorists, plain and simple - and this proscription order makes that clear in U.K. law," she said.
Proscribing Wagner as a terrorist organisation would mean it would be a criminal offence in Britain to belong to or promote the group, arrange or address its meetings, and carry its logo in public.
The Wagner mercenary group was deployed in Ukraine soon after the Russian invasion last year.
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