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Musk calls for jailed UK far-right activist Tommy Robinson to be released (www.aljazeera.com)

submitted 6 months ago by StraponStratos@lemmy.sdf.org to c/world@quokk.au

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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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[-] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 57 points 6 months ago

A South African defending a white supremacist!? I'm shocked!

[-] watson387@sopuli.xyz 23 points 6 months ago

No.

[-] motor_spirit@lemmy.world 22 points 6 months ago

go back to Africa!

[-] qyron@sopuli.xyz 10 points 6 months ago

South Africa.

The rest of the continent has standards.

[-] fishabel@discuss.online 20 points 6 months ago

How about they make a trade? Robinson for Musk

[-] MacStache@programming.dev 14 points 6 months ago

Why the fuck do they give this guy so much visibility on foreign affairs?

Yes, I know it's because of money and power, but this guy shouldn't have any power over UK, German or, truth be told, any matter whatsoever outside the US. Or even inside the USimho.

[-] GiveOver@feddit.uk 6 points 6 months ago

I'm so glad we have 4+ years until the next election. Hopefully he'll get bored of UK politics and focus on ruining something else before then

[-] Linktank@lemmy.today 3 points 6 months ago

I'm calling for Musky to be arrested.

[-] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago

He's that self-help guru, right?

[+] BlackLaZoR@fedia.io -35 points 6 months ago

The article doesn't even say what that dude was imprisoned for.

Being right wing isn't a crime on it's own. It's like bunch of stupids are writing a sensationalist piece for other stupids to be angry about.

[-] Skua@kbin.earth 48 points 6 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