Austria Plans Indefinite Detention for Terror Convicts

Austria Plans Indefinite Detention for Terror Convicts
Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz addresses a press conference at the Chancellery in Vienna on Nov. 3, 2020, Joe Klamar/AFP via Getty Images
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The Austrian government has proposed to allow courts to jail those convicted of terrorism-related offences for as long as they are deemed a threat.

“If a mentally abnormal criminal can be locked up for life because he is a threat, then a terrorist who poses a threat can be locked up for life,” Austria’s conservative Chancellor Sebastian Kurz told a news conference on Wednesday.