{"id":13523,"date":"2014-03-24T09:33:18","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T09:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13523"},"modified":"2014-03-24T09:33:18","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T09:33:18","slug":"sharp-increase-in-young-british-proto-jihadists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13523","title":{"rendered":"Sharp increase in young British proto-jihadists"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_13524\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13524\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/hamaskids.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13524\" alt=\"Not Kony's army...\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/hamaskids.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/hamaskids.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/hamaskids-148x99.jpg 148w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/hamaskids-31x21.jpg 31w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/hamaskids-38x25.jpg 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13524\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Not Joseph Kony&#8217;s army&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A sharp increase in under-18s &#8216;at risk&#8217; of being radicalised into jihadists has been seen in Britain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The number of children and vulnerable adults in UK identified as potential violent extremists by a controversial anti-radicalisation initiative has surged by more than 25 per cent in the past year, The Independent reports.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since last April at least 940 people have been referred for assessment under the Channel program because of concerns they are at risk of being drawn into terrorism, according to official figures.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The numbers, disclosed by the Association of Chief Police Officers via a Freedom of Information request, include 467 under-18s, representing more than a third of all juvenile referrals since the scheme, which is primarily tasked with addressing Islamic extremism, was launched in 2007.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source: VoR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sharp increase in under-18s &#8216;at risk&#8217; of being radicalised into jihadists has been seen in Britain. The number of children and vulnerable adults in UK identified as potential violent extremists by a controversial anti-radicalisation initiative has surged by more than 25 per cent in the past year, The Independent reports. Since last April at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13523\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sharp increase in young British proto-jihadists&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,3],"tags":[8704,8705],"class_list":["post-13523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","tag-british-proto-jihadists","tag-potential-violent-extremists"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/hamaskids.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13525,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13523\/revisions\/13525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}