Terrorgram proscribed as terrorist organisation

The Terrorgram collective has now been proscribed as a terrorist organisation.

It is now a criminal offence to belong to the group or invite support for it, with a potential prison sentence of 14 years which can be handed down alongside or in place of a fine.

Section 58 also makes it a criminal offence for a person to collect or possess information which is likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing for acts of terrorism, including where an individual views or accesses documents or records containing information of that kind.

The group has now been added to the list of proscribed organisations in the UK, alongside 80 other organisations.

According to the Home Office, the group is an "online network of neo-fascist terrorists who produce and disseminate violent propaganda to encourage those who consume its content to engage in terrorist activity."