Terrorists undergoing compulsory deradicalisation course triples in UK | World News, The Indian Express

Terrorists undergoing compulsory deradicalisation course triples in UK | World News, The Indian Express

By PTI |London |Published: April 6, 2019 6:34:15 pm

Terrorists undergoing compulsory deradicalisation course triples in UK

The Desistance and Disengagement Programme (DDP) has been running since October 2016 as part of UK's wider counter-terrorism strategy named Contest and is aimed at all terrorism and terrorism-related offenders released from prison or those returning from war-zones.

According to the latest UK Home Office figures, from 30 individuals who undertook the programme during its first year of operation in 2016-17, the number rose to 86 in 2017-18. (Representational Image)

The number of terrorists, including returning fighters from the ISIS-held territories in Syria and Iraq, who are being made to undertake a compulsory deradicalisation course set up by the UK government has nearly tripled in the last year.