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Palestine Action can go ahead with a High Court challenge against the Government over its ban as a terror organisation, the Court of Appeal has ruled.
Huda Ammori, the co-founder of the group, took legal action against former home secretary Yvette Cooper’s decision to proscribe the group under anti-terror laws.
The ban, which began on July 5, made membership of, or support for, the direct action group a criminal offence punishable by up to 14 years in prison.
More than 2,000 people have been arrested since the group was proscribed, according to campaign group Defend Our Juries.
Lady Chief Justice Baroness Carr today dismissed the Home Office’s attempt to block the move. She added: “Judicial review would be a quicker means of challenging the order proscribing Palestine Action than applying to deproscribe.
“Judicial review would enable the High Court to give an authoritative judgment on whether or not it was lawful to proscribe Palestine Action.
“That judgment could then be relied on in criminal courts hearing charges against any person arrested in connection with their support of Palestine Action.”
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