Palestine Action to challenge terror ban in courts
It comes as Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary, is expected to publish a written statement to lay the order to make membership and support for the direct action group illegal.
If approved, membership and support for the group would become a criminal offence punishable by up to 14 years in prison.
Commenting on the hearing, Ms Ammori said: “I have been left with no choice but to request this urgent hearing and to seek either an injunction or other form of interim relief because of the Home Secretary’s decision to try to steamroll this through Parliament immediately.”
She added: “[There hasn’t been] proper opportunity for MPs and Peers to debate and scrutinise the proposal, or for legal and human rights experts and civil society organisations to make representations, or for those of us who would be denied fundamental rights as a result and criminalised as ‘terrorists’ overnight, including the many thousands of people who support Palestine Action.”
The Government’s move comes after two planes were vandalised at RAF Brize Norton on June 20 in an action claimed by Palestine Action.
Five people have since been arrested on suspicion of a terror offence in relation to the incident.
Unveiling the intention to ban the group following the incident on June 23, Ms Cooper said it was the latest in a “long history of unacceptable criminal damage committed by Palestine Action”.
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