Palestine Action terror ban was unlawful, high court judge rules
The co-founder of Palestine Action has won a High Court challenge over the ban of the organisation as a terror group on two grounds.
Huda Ammori had taken legal action against the department over the then-home secretary Yvette Cooper’s decision to proscribe the group under the Terrorism Act 2000.
The ban, which began on July 5 last year, made membership of, or support for, the direct-action group a criminal offence punishable by up to 14 years in prison.
At a hearing late last year, barristers for Ms Ammori told the court that the decision to ban the group was unlawful and should be quashed, with Palestine Action being the first “direct-action civil disobedience organisation that does not advocate for violence” to be proscribed as a terrorist group.
The group remains banned as a terror group to allow further arguments and the Government time to consider an appeal.
About a hundred people gathered outside the High Court building in central London are cheering and chanting “Free Palestine” after the news broke.
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