Germany Considers Hezbollah a Terrorist Organization and Bans its Activities

On April 30, 2020, the German Federal Minister of the Interior Horst Seehofer banned all activities by the Shiite terrorist organization Hezbollah (in English: Party of God, also transliterated as Hizbollah and Hizbullah) in Germany. To ensure that evidence of potential sub-organizations in Germany could not be destroyed when this ban was announced, police authorities in North Rhine-Westphalia, Bremen, and Berlin have been conducting searches at 6 a.m.  on a total of four association premises and the private residences of the leaders of each association.