These concerns include definitions of terrorism and terrorist related offences.

have been made offences under Barbados' Anti Terrorism Act, Cap.

Some of the topics discussed were terrorism and terrorism financing offences, the investigation and prosecution of such offences and chasing terrorist property which included tracking, freezing and forfeiting such property.

Chapter 19 deals with money laundering and Chapter 23 with terrorism and related offences.

The offences of terrorism and related acts are introduced into the category of serious offences, making it impossible for release on bail to be granted.

The Special Rapporteur also interviewed defence attorneys of persons charged with offences relating to terrorism.

Terrorism offences in the Criminal Code will be clarified and the criteria for listing terrorist organisations extended to cover organisations that advocate terrorism.

E. The principle of nullum crimen sine lege and definitions of terrorism and terrorist related offences

The following offences are also introduced conspiracy to commit terrorism, threat of terrorism, concealment of the activities or identity of terrorists and recruitment of terrorists.

1.11 Having acceded to most of the international instruments aimed at combating terrorism, the Sultanate understands that the offences established by these instruments are not deemed to be political offences.

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The necessary legal initiatives have included criminalization of terrorism offences, establishment of mechanisms for freezing and seizing terrorist assets and provision for various modalities of international cooperation against terrorism.

The Public Prosecution Service has national prosecutors who are experts in terrorism, terrorist financing, money laundering and other financial offences.

Will the proposed draft law concerning the prevention and suppression of terrorism, mentioned in the report, deal with those offences?

If related to terrorist acts, the penalties associated to these offences are cumulative to those provided for crimes of terrorism.

It stated its preference for the inclusion in the convention of an illustrative list of offences which would include terrorism.

5. The Convention should not apply expressly to terrorism, but it should not exempt terrorists who commit organized crime offences.

A new chapter entitled Terrorism offences , which defines and penalizes the concepts of a terrorist group and terrorist activities, was introduced.

Training for Barbados' Prosecutors in order to enhance their knowledge and capacity to prosecute offences created under the Anti Terrorism Act

The National Assembly has passed a legislation outlawing money laundering and financing of terrorism, bringing the Armenian legislation in line with its international obligations to combat financing of terrorism and strengthening the ability of the Government to prosecute terrorism related offences.

1.14 Please outline those offences, including the pieces of legislations in which they are found, that correspond to the offences established by the International Instruments on the Suppression of Terrorism, to which Seychelles is a party.

Strengthen existing offences for financing of terrorism, providing false or misleading information under an ASIO questioning warrant and for threatening aviation security.

The Bill also creates offences relating to the use of radioactive materials, radioactive devices, or nuclear facilities for the purposes of terrorism.

Pakistan has criminalized the financing of terrorism, terrorist acts and terrorist organizations and designated such offences as predicate offence for money laundering.

The Bill creates offences relating to the making and possession of radioactive devices and the possession radioactive materials for the purposes of terrorism.

It contains provisions criminalizing terrorist acts, including financing of terrorist acts, in Title IV of the special part Crimes and offences of terrorism.

Strengthening existing offences and creating new offences

Greece also noted that acts of terrorism should be excluded from the list of offences since terrorism was primarily a politically motivated crime, while organized transnational crime was mainly aimed at eroding international financial systems.

Another recent example involves the case of a 31 year old Australian man who Australia authorities charged with terrorism related offences in November 2003.

According to the Criminal Code, two groups of crimes can be distinguished (i) offences such as an act of terror, the provocation of terrorism, hijacking an aircraft or ship and taking hostages that are closely related to terrorism and thus should be considered as terrorist offences in all cases and (ii) some terrorist crimes falling under the definition of ordinary offences, as, for instance, homicide, and crimes related to firearms and explosives.

The draft legislation submitted to Parliament extends this liability also to the criminal offences of terrorism, including the preparation of and participation in such crimes.

A new notice to produce regime to facilitate lawful AFP requests for information that will assist with the investigation of terrorism and other serious offences.

It appears that some countries have expanded the scope of capital punishment to deal with offences arising from acts defined as terrorism where death ensues.

While none of these universal legal instruments contains an explicit legal definition of international terrorism , 10 of them contain narrowly operational definitions regarding certain offences.

The European Convention on the Suppression of Terrorism (1997, article 2),a opened the possibility for contracting States not to consider certain offences as political.

All Federal indictable offences are money laundering predicate offences.

This offence which is to be found in the Convention on the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism was considered in order to study how to implement the provisions concerning the criminalization of offences relating to terrorism.

Insofar as offences referred to in paragraph 1, subparagraphs 1 to 5, of section 5 are concerned, the financier may be sentenced as an accomplice under the penal provisions relating to those offences instead of the provisions criminalising the financing of terrorism.

The draft law on the prevention and suppression of terrorism will include a provision conferring competence on the Comorian authorities to deal with offences covered by the universal counter terrorism instruments if the alleged perpetrator of one or more of these offences is on Comorian territory, wherever the offence was committed and regardless of the nationality of the alleged perpetrator.

Terrorist offences

Offences established by the universal anti terrorism instruments are covered by Articles 93, 93(a), 94, 185(a)(2) of amended Criminal Code of the Slovak Republic.

Finally, it should be noted that the amendments to the Federal Penal Code also include increased penalties for the offences of terrorism and related acts, as well as the exclusion of early release for persons convicted of terrorism and related acts.

A) Money Laundering is an offence vis à vis three predicate offences i.e., Drug trafficking, Corruption Corrupt Practices and Financing of Terrorism in respective statutes. i.e., Control of Narcotics Substances Act, 1997 National Accountability Ordinance, 1999 and Anti Terrorism Act, 1997.

Estonia proposed to add the words quot or offences connected with political offences quot after the words quot political offences quot .

When implemented, the new definitions of offences under those Protocols will represent an important tool in the fight against terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.