Terrorismiin liittyvät rikokset Britanniassa 2001-2008

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http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20110218135832/http:/rds.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs09/hosb0409.pdf

" Statistics on terrorism arrests and outcomes
Great Britain
11 September 2001 to 31 March 2008

MAIN POINTS

For the period between the start of the data collection on 11 September 2001
to 31 March 2008:

• There were 1,471 terrorism arrests. This excludes 38 arrests made between
the introduction of the Terrorism Act 2000 on 19 February 2001 and 11
September 2001 and 119 stops at Scottish ports under Schedule 7 of the
Terrorism Act 2000.

• In 2007/8 there were 231 terrorism arrests compared with an annual average
of 227 since 1 April 2002.

• Thirty-five per cent of terrorism arrests (521) resulted in a charge, of which
340 (65%) were considered terrorism related. The proportion of those
arrested (35%) who were charged is similar to that for other criminal offences
with 31% of those aged 18 and over arrested for indictable offences
prosecuted. For a further 9% of terrorism arrests some

Ethnicity of prisoners (Table 10)
23. Based on self-classified ethnicity, just over one-half (56%) of prisoners remanded
or convicted for terrorism related offences were of Asian ethnic origin while all but
one domestic extremist was of White origin.

Nationality of prisoners (Table 12)
25. Sixty-two per cent of terrorist prisoners in England and Wales were recorded as
UK nationals, 21% of African nationality, 9% of Middle Eastern nationality and 4%
of Asian nationality. Nationality was spread over 26 countries with the highest
after the UK being Algerian nationals, although this accounts for only 6 prisoners.

Religion of prisoners (Table 13)
26. The majority (91%) of terrorist prisoners classified themselves as Muslims.
For the 17 domestic extremists/separatists, 3 classified themselves as Church of England,
3 Buddhist and 8 gave no religion or described themselves as agnostic. "