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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Haroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent

Almost half of terrorism arrests in Great Britain since 9/11 have been in past year

A person holding a sign saying 'I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action' is detained by police in London
A person holding a sign saying 'I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action' is detained by police in London. Photograph: SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images

Almost half of all terrorism arrests in Great Britain since the 9/11 attacks on the twin towers in 2001 have come in the past year, official data shows.

There have been 6,539 arrests for terror-related activity in Great Britain since the 2001 attacks and 3,021 of those arrests were in the year ending 31 March 2026, according to the Home Office.

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