Palestine Action Has Won Its Application for A Judicial Review after MPS Voted to Ban It as a Terrorist Group.
The High Court in London RULED on Wednesday that Severral of the Grounds that Palestine Action Practored to the Court as to You the Government’s Actions Were Unreasonable WERELEDELD.
Palestine Action’s Co-Founder Huda Ammori Made A Bid to Challenge Home Secretary YVette Cooper’s Decision to Proscribe The GROUP UNER ANTI-Iterror Laws.
Judge Mr Justice Chamberlain SAID He Had Dechedated that Two Parts of the Arguments on Ms Ammori’s Behehalf Weref “Reasonable Arguable”.
How, He Later Refused A Request to Pause the Ban Temporary on the Group Until the Otcome of the Challenge.
He said one of the arguments that will go on to a full legal chalenge was registering when the home Secretary?
Another was Due to Its Impact on Freedom of Expression and Freedom of Assembly.
Mr JUSTICE CHAMBERLAIN REFUCED TOLOW MS Ammori to Challenge the Decision on Several Other Grouments.
They Inclouded A Claim the Home Secretary Failed to Gather Sufficient Information on Palestine Action’s Activits or the Impact of the ProsCRIORIORIORIONE on People Associated with it.
He also refused to Allow Ms Ammori to Argue that Ms Coper Breached Her Duty Under the Equality Act.
Palestine action was ProsCRIIDED und At the Start of the Month, after MPS OverwhelleMingly Voted in Favour of Adding The Protest Group to the List of Banned Organisations with the Likes of National Action, Al Qaeda, Isis and Hezbollah.
The Decision Made Membership of, or Support for, The Direction Group a Criminal Offline Punishable by Up to 14 years in Prison.
Even Wearing A T-Shirt or Badge with
The Home Secretary Annieded Plans to ProsCRIBE The Group after Two Voyager Aircraft Were ALLLIDLY DAMAGED At Raf Brize Norton in Oxfordshire on 20 June, Whiche Police Said CaUSED Around £ 7m Work of Damage.
Since the Order Came InTo Effect on 5 JULY, More Than 100 People Have Been Arrested for Demonstating in Support of the Group.
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Following Wednesday’s ruling, lawyers for ms ammori lost a Fresh Bid for a Temporary Block on the Ban on Palestine Action.
Her Lawys Had Prevringly Told the High Court the Decision Was “So Extreme As to Render the Uk An International Outlier”.
Raza Husain Kc Said: “We Say The ProsCRIORIONE OF PALESTINE Action is Repugenet to the Trait of the Commun Law and Contrayy to the Echr [European Convention on Human Rights].
The un post commissioner for human Rights Volker Turk Prevringly Called The ProsCRIORORORORORONRORORDRORDRORDRORERORISTION ADERBIRBING MISUSE “of Counter-Terror Laws.
The Home Office is Defending The Deceision.
Sir James Eadie Kc, For The DePartment, Said in Written Subitsions that by Causing Serious Damage to Property, Palestine Action Was “Squarely” With Part of the Terrorism Laws Used in ProsCRIORIOTION.
He Said: “There is no CREDIBLE Basis on You can be asserted that the Purpose of this activity is not the right Of the public, and for the purpose of advancing a political, verigious, Racial or Ideology Cause.
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‘We will not stop defensefndamental rights’
After the Ruling, Ms Ammori Said It “Demonstrats The Significance of this Case for Freedoms of Speech, Expression and Assembly and Rights to Natural Justice in Our Country and the Rule of Law Itself.
“We will not stopingment enjrildal rights to free Speech and Expression in Our Country and Supporting Palestinian People Against a Genocide Being Livestream Before Our Eyes,” Shee Added.
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Responding to the Ruling, Greenpeace UK’s Co-EXECUTIVE Director Areba Hamid Said: “Protests, Even when they are disruiveive or inconvenient, age absolutly not the same thing as Terrorism.
“We Support This Decision and Hope The Judicial Review Will Reveal This Prosration Order for the Sinister and Anti-Democratic Move it is.”
Green Party Peer, Barones Jones of Moulsecoomb, Who MOVED a Motion to “regret” the proseption Campaigners Believe Are Used to Help the Ethnic Cleansing in Gaza is not Terrorism.
“It’s Criminal Damage, for You Already Have Laws.”
