Six Charged Under Terror Act
Five Turks and a Briton were charged with being members of a banned Turkish terrorist organization, police said.
The four men and two women, suspected of being members of the outlawed Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party-Front, were arrested in London and Cheshire, northwestern England, according to London’s Metropolitan Police. They are to appear in court Monday.
The militant Marxist group has claimed responsibility for a number of assassinations and bombings since the 1970s.
The Terrorism Act 2000 bans 25 alleged international terror groups.
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