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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Diane Taylor

Home Office threatened with libel action over Prevent strategy review

Former Chair of the Charity Commission William Shawcross
William Shawcross, a former chair of the Charity Commission, is the author of a review into Prevent that has elicited a defamation action before it has been published. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA Media

An organisation that monitors Prevent, the UK government’s controversial programme to stop people getting drawn into terrorism, has warned of a defamation action against the Home Office before a review into the strategy.

Prevent Watch, which has supported 600 individuals it says have wrongly been affected by Prevent, sent a formal letter to the department threatening legal action.

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