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Musk calls for jailed UK far-right activist Tommy Robinson to be released (www.aljazeera.com)
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Robinson, a one-time football hooligan with a string of UK criminal convictions, is serving an 18-month jail term after he admitted contempt of court in a long-running libel case involving a Syrian refugee.

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[-] Skua@kbin.earth 48 points 3 months ago

Contempt of court (this time). He was found to have libelled a 15 year old refugee a few years back, and having already had an injunction placed against him to stop repeating the libel he did so a third time anyway and the courts got fed up with his shit

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