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Terrorism Bill

I support the amendment tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Goodhart. I am deeply worried about the definition of a terrorist, or of encouraging terrorism, which has expanded to other parts of the world where there are legitimate struggles of the right of self-determination and legitimate struggles against oppression; where there are abuses of human rights and where there is rape and torture. People like me who come from Kashmir know that there are 700,000 Indian soldiers there. International organisations, such as Amnesty International, Physicians for Human Rights, Asia Watch, and the state department, and even the Foreign Office know well that there have been many reports of fake encounters and abuses of human rights, such as rape and torture. We need clarification about how far we can go in terms of freedom of speech and legitimate struggles that we have been supporting. After all, our tradition is that we have supported those people who are oppressed. There is absolutely no suggestion that we want to support any terrorist who wants to kill innocent people, but there are people facing armies of oppression, and we need a very clear definition.