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The UK’s High Court has ruled the Home Office’s decision to ban Palestine Action under anti-terrorism laws was unlawful following a legal challenge.

Dame Victoria Sharp said the proscription of Palestine Action “did result in a very significant interference with the right to freedom of speech and freedom of assembly”.

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[-] hector@lemmy.today 7 points 20 hours ago

Decision put on hold, nothing changes. The high court also libels the group a bit here too, saying they embrace criminality and encouraging criminality. It's criminal to starve people, it's criminal to torture them, the definition of terrorism would more correctly describe labor politicians than this protest group.

This high court went out of it's way to cover for labour here, as they betray the fundamental rights of freedom of expression and protest in the UK, England being amongst the first in Europe, in the modern era, to win these rights, is now the first to lose them, without a fight, because it's "their side" taking them away. Including the right to a goddamned jury trial, for up to 3 years in prison, like it's a parking ticket, a magistrate picked by their aristocratic famously haughty old boy club that runs the legal system imperiously decides you can go to prison for 3 years without a jury trial. They underfunded, and sabotaged the functioning of the courts, then used the backlogs as an excuse to cancel the Magna Carta, the old Reagan/Thatcher method.

The rot in the UK legal system stinks, I can smell it from here. These judges did less than the bare minimum of their duty, leaving this illegal betrayal of our ancient freedoms in force, and libeling the accused to boot, even as they languish in prison with no bail and no trial date set.

It is better than nothing that this high court repudiated this law, letting it remain in force means they don't want to, that this is performative, they can't reasonably support betraying their duty to this degree, and so make a show of doing their duty in a way that changes nothing.

[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 1 points 20 hours ago

Good to know thanks for the info.

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