Doug Jewell, of the human rights group Liberty, told BBC Breakfast, the new laws were too wide-reaching.
"The problem with this is that the encouragement and glorification laws which are coming in today are so broad that anyone supporting violence to remove a regime anywhere in the world now or in the past would theoretically get caught up."
"The problem with this is that the encouragement and glorification laws which are coming in today are so broad that anyone supporting violence to remove a regime anywhere in the world now or in the past would theoretically get caught up."
Peers were also worried it would curb free speech and rejected the plans five times before voting them through in March.
Now the fun starts. At last they can prosecute that old geezer in the wheelchair who booed Jack "Where-Am-I?" Straw!