Submissions to the Home Secretary to Lift the LTTE terrorism Ban in the UK

London: TGTE (Transnational Government of Tamil Ealam) members have presented the Home Secretary with legal arguments and evidence in support of their application to have the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (the LTTE) removed from the list of organisations proscribed under the Terrorism Act in the UK. The TGTE is seeking to have the ban on the LTTE lifted on the basis that the LTTE is not ‘concerned in terrorism’, and that the ban interferes with the rights of the Tamil community to engage in public debate about the position of Tamils in Sri Lanka. Their representations include expert evidence from political scientist Professor Mampilly of City University of New York, and Peter Schalk, a retired expert in the history of religions at the University of Uppsala, Sweden. The representations also include powerful evidence from a number of Tamil activists whose political campaigning has been adversely affected by the LTTE’s proscription. The Home Secretary now has 90 days to consider the arguments advanced on behalf of the TGTE and to make a decision as to whether or not the LTTE will continue to be proscribed. The decision is expected no later than 31 August 2021.

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