Palestine Action’s co-founder has won a legal challenge over the group’s ban as a terrorist organisation on two grounds.
Huda Ammori launched the legal action after then-home secretary Yvette Cooper’s decision to proscribe the group, which came into force on 5 July last year.
The law change put Palestine Action on the same legal footing as the likes of ISIS and al Qaeda, making membership of, or support for, the group a crime punishable by up to 14 years in prison.
Even wearing a T-shirt, or carrying a sign, with the group’s name on it can attract a maximum six-month sentence.
At a three-day High Court hearing, Ms Ammori’s lawyers argued the ban was unprecedented and compared Palestine Action to the suffragettes.
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