London, July 19 (ANI): Five people, who were arrested by the UK's Metropolitan police counter-terrorism command, have been charged with terrorism offences.
According to The Guardian, three men from London have been charged with offences that involved travelling to Pakistan for training in terrorism between July 2010 and July 2012.
The offenders include Richard Dart, who had appeared in a BBC Three documentary after converting to Islam, Imran Mahmood and Jahangir Alom.
The three had also travelled abroad to commit acts of terrorism, and to have advised and counselled the commission of terrorist acts by providing information about travelling to Pakistan and terrorism training, and operational security while there.
A fourth man, Khalid Baqa, 47, has been charged with three counts of possession of terrorist material and one count of dissemination of terrorist material.
According to the charges, Baqa had CDs containing a document entitled 39 Ways to Support and Participate in Jihad, as well as a number of issues of a magazine called Inspire for distribution to others.
A woman, Ruksana Begum, 22, has been charged with possession of a digital memory card containing a document likely to be of use to a terrorist.
All five will appear at Westminster magistrate's court on Thursday. (ANI)
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