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Kurdish group PKK added to banned list in
Australia
15.12.2005
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Newsdesk 15.Dec -
The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) has been outlawed
as a terrorist organisation under the federal
government's counter-terrorism laws.
Attorney-General Philip Ruddock said the PKK had
been listed as a terrorist organisation on the
advice of competent authorities.
"The PKK has now been included on the list of
terrorist organisations proscribed under
counter-terrorism provisions of the Criminal Code
Act 1995," Mr Ruddock said in a statement.
"These provisions make a criminal offence of
involvement in recruitment, training, funding and
other forms of association or support for proscribed
terrorist organisations."
Mr Ruddock said members of listed terrorist
organisations faced prosecution and penalties of up
to 25 years' imprisonment.
The PKK is already listed as a proscribed terrorist
organisation by the governments of the United
Kingdom, Canada, United States and the European
Union.
It is already subject to federal government
counter-terrorism financing regulations, which makes
it an offence to have financial dealings with
terrorists and allows Australia to freeze a
terrorist organisation's assets.
The PKK is a Kurdish separatist organisation founded
in Turkey in 1974, and is suspected of having been
responsible for numerous attacks on civilians and
security forces in Turkey in recent times.
Mr Ruddock said Australian intelligence agencies had
assessed the PKK as continuing to prepare, plan and
foster the commission of acts involving threats to
human life and serious damage to property.
AAP
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