MPs approve terror offenders law - BBC News
The Commons approves legislation blocking the automatic release of prisoners in jail for terror offences.
At the beginning of the month, two people were stabbed in an attack on Streatham High Street in London, in an Islamist-related terrorist incident.

The attacker, Sudesh Amman, had been freed from prison 10 days after serving time for terror offences.
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The government responded by promising to bring forward legislation urgently to prevent the automatic release of people convicted of terrorism offences halfway through their sentences.

Under the government's proposals, people given a fixed or determinate sentence for a terror-related offence would be freed only with the agreement of the Parole Board - and after serving at least two-thirds of their term.

The bill was introduced to Parliament yesterday and the government wants the measures to become law by the end of the month.

The aim is to prevent the 28 February release of Mohammed Zahir Khan, who is the next convicted terrorist due to be freed after serving half his sentence for encouraging terrorism.

The bill would affect about 50 prisoners who were convicted under existing rules, which allow for release halfway through a sentence.