UK Sets Terrorgram Online Network As Terrorist Organization

JAKARTA - On Monday, April 22, the British Government announced that it would collectively ban Terrorgram, an extreme right-wing online network, as a terrorist organization. This means becoming a member or promoting the group is a criminal act or against the law.

The UK Ministry of Home Affairs, or Home Office, described the group as a neo-fascist online network that produces and spreads violent propaganda against ethnic and religious minorities.

"Terrorgram spreads heinous propaganda and aims to radicalize young people to commit heinous acts of terrorist," British Interior Minister James Cleanly said in a statement.

Cloverly said it would be the first banned online network to put it in the same category as groups like Hamas and ISIS.

According to the Home Office, although Islam-inspired terrorism still represents Britain's biggest terror threat, the threat from extreme far-right ideology is growing and continues to develop through the radicalization of young people.

A teenager who shot dead two people outside a well-known gay bar in the Slovak capital, Bratislava, in 2022, gave Terrorgram credit in its manifest, and the group's propaganda contains a violent narrative that honors it, the Home Office added.