Anti-terrorism legislation

An anti -terrorism law is a law that should exclusively or at least primarily serve the fight against terrorism.

Germany

Older German anti-terrorism laws, for example, the contact barrier Act of 1977 and the 1976 newly created offense of membership of a terrorist organization.

In the Federal Republic of Germany more anti -terror laws since the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001 entered into force, including the extensive article Law Act to combat international terrorism ( Counter-Terrorism Act ) of 9 January 2002, also known as safety package II of the then Federal Minister of the Interior Schily (SPD).

The legal responses also include the Aviation Security Act of 11 January 2005.

The packages of measures in Germany extended to different regulations and areas:

  • The security checks in the aviation sector were severe.
  • The personnel involved in security areas now subject to an annual reliability check.
  • Identity papers were more focused on computer-assisted identifications and future supplemented with biometric features.
  • Extremist oriented religious communities may be prohibited by the amendment of the Law on Associations.
  • The powers of various security agencies have been extended.
  • The German Federal Criminal Police Office must now pursue trailer of foreign terrorist organizations they are involved in cybercrime.
  • The Federal Police is allowed in airplanes, the use of so-called sky marshals.
  • The Protection of the Constitution was also the observation of activities imposed, which are directed against international understanding and peaceful coexistence. He should uncover with information requests cash flows of terrorist suspects.
  • Police and intelligence agencies gained access to an anti -terrorism database and other fusion centers were established.

The January expiring in 2012 anti - terror law in Germany was established in June 2011 was verlängert.Strittig it had the retention of Telekommunikationsdaten.So on Wednesday, 29 June privacy initiatives the Minister Sabine Leutheusser -Schnarrenberger presented almost 58,000 signatures and the Ministry of Justice before the " protested against the planned reintroduction of retention. They criticize that monitoring measures are a disproportionate invasion of privacy. "

United States

The USA PATRIOT Act is a U.S. federal law, which was adopted on 25 October 2001 by Congress in the wake of the war on terrorism. It was a direct response to the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001 and the anthrax attacks occurred a little later.

Criticism

Critics of the anti - terror legislation argue that counter-terrorism measures of repression and surveillance of citizens and political dissident groups were focused on while they themselves were ineffective against the terrorists. So reported the American Civil Liberties Union that were on the list of terror suspects the United States, according to the U.S. Department of Justice over a million people.

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