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    Team_Jamaica 14By Team_Jamaica 14July 7, 2025No Comments3 Mins Read
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    Zoie O’Brien & André Rhoden-Paul

    BBC Information

    PA Media Protesters outside the Royal Courts of Justice on The Strand, central London. PA Media

    Palestine Motion has been banned after a choose refused its request to briefly block the UK authorities from proscribing it as a terror group.

    On Friday, a Excessive Courtroom choose refused a bid to briefly cease the ban.

    The group then challenged the ruling on the Courtroom of Enchantment, which late on Friday night rejected the last-minute attraction.

    The ban – which got here into impact on Saturday – means supporting Palestine Motion will change into a prison offence, with membership or expressing assist for the group punishable by as much as 14 years in jail.

    A Dwelling Workplace spokesperson mentioned on Saturday it welcomed the court docket’s resolution.

    On his resolution on the listening to on Friday, denying the group’s request for a brief block, Excessive Courtroom choose Mr Justice Chamberlain mentioned: “I’ve concluded that the hurt which might ensue if interim aid is refused however the declare later succeeds is inadequate to outweigh the robust public curiosity in sustaining the order in drive.”

    Earlier this week, a draft order was laid earlier than Parliament requesting an modification to the Terrorism Act 2000 to incorporate Palestine Motion as a proscribed organisation.

    The transfer was taken to ban the group after an estimated £7m of injury was prompted to planes at RAF Brize Norton final month, in motion claimed by Palestine Motion.

    Raza Husain KC, barrister for Palestine Motion’s Ms Ammori, instructed the court docket banning the group can be “ill-considered” and an “authoritarian abuse” of energy.

    “That is the primary time in our historical past {that a} direct motion civil disobedience group, which doesn’t advocate for violence, has been sought to be proscribed as terrorists,” he mentioned.

    In a 26-page judgement, Mr Justice Chamberlain mentioned a number of the penalties feared by Ms Ammori and others who gave proof have been “overstated”.

    After the ruling, Ms Ammori mentioned “hundreds of individuals throughout Britain get up tomorrow to search out that they had been criminalised in a single day for supporting a home protest group which sprays pink paint on warplanes and disrupts Israel’s largest weapons producer”.

    She added: “We won’t cease combating to defend basic rights to free speech and protest in our nation and to face up for the rights of the Palestinian folks.”

    The group then launched a last-minute problem on the Courtroom of Enchantment, which they misplaced late on Friday night.

    Delivering their ruling, the Girl Chief Justice Baroness Carr, Lord Justice Lewis and Lord Justice Edis mentioned: “The deserves of the underlying resolution to proscribe a specific group isn’t a matter for the court docket.

    “It is a matter, below the related Act of Parliament, for the Secretary of State, who’s accountable to Parliament for the selections that she makes.”

    The court docket additionally refused to pause the ban coming into impact pending any Supreme Courtroom bid.

    Round 81 organisations are already proscribed below the Terrorism Act 2000, together with Hamas, al Qaida and Nationwide Motion.

    The Dwelling Secretary Yvette Cooper introduced plans to proscribe Palestine Motion on 23 June, saying that the vandalism of the 2 planes was “disgraceful” and that the group had a “lengthy historical past of unacceptable prison injury”.

    Mr Justice Chamberlain mentioned an evaluation on whether or not to ban the group had been made as early as March, and “preceded” the incident at RAF Brize Norton.

    4 folks have been charged in connection to the incident.



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