{"id":87232,"date":"2019-04-15T13:44:48","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T20:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=87232"},"modified":"2019-04-15T13:44:48","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T20:44:48","slug":"four-men-detained-on-terrorism-charges-at-luton-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/04\/15\/four-men-detained-on-terrorism-charges-at-luton-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Four men detained on terrorism charges at Luton airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy joe.co.uk<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Four men have been arrested on suspicion of belonging to a banned terrorist organisation<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Police arrested four men on suspicion of belonging to a banned terror group after they arrived in the UK at Luton airport from Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They arrived on Wednesday night and were taken into custody before being questioned at a police station in Bedfordshire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All four are Sri Lankan nationals and were detained under the terrorism act.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scotland Yard said: &#8220;Police at the airport were made aware of the men the next day, Thursday 11 April and subsequently stopped them under schedule seven of the Terrorism Act 2000.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The men are yet to be identified as they have not been charged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The only Sri Lankan organisation on the government&#8217;s list of proscribed terror groups are the&nbsp;Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, described as&#8221;a terrorist group fighting for a separate Tamil state in the North and East of Sri Lanka&#8221; and listed in 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police inquiries are ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy joe.co.uk Four men have been arrested on suspicion of belonging to a banned terrorist organisation Police arrested four men on suspicion of belonging to a banned terror group after they arrived in the UK at Luton airport from Sri Lanka. They arrived on Wednesday night and were taken into custody before being questioned at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}