High Court to on govt’s choice to ban Palestine Action below anti-terrorism legal guidelines

The High Court is to rule on Friday on whether or not the Home Office’s choice to ban Palestine Action below anti-terrorism legal guidelines was lawful.

Palestine Action’s co-founder Huda Ammori is taking authorized motion towards the division over the then-home secretary Yvette Cooper’s choice to proscribe the group below the Terrorism Act 2000.

The ban, which started on July 5 final yr, made membership of, or help for, the direct-action group a felony offence punishable by as much as 14 years in jail.

At a listening to late final yr, barristers for Ms Ammori instructed the courtroom that the choice to ban the group was illegal and ought to be quashed, with Palestine Action being the primary "direct-action civil disobedience organisation that does not advocate for violence" to be proscribed as a terrorist group.

The Home Office is defending the problem, with its barristers telling the listening to in London that the transfer has not prevented folks from protesting towards Israel’s actions in Gaza or in help of Palestinians.

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