Palestine Action campaigners are taking court action in anattempt to blockthe Government from proscribing it as a terrorist organisation, a spokesman for their lawyers said.
The High Court has granted Palestine Action an urgent hearing to challenge the Government's impending proscription.
Birnberg Peirce submitted the claim on behalf of Huda Ammori, a 31-year-old of Palestinian and Iraqi heritage, and a co-founder of Palestine Action.
At an urgent hearing held at the Royal Courts of Justice on Monday, lawyers for Huda Ammori, said they would seek “interim relief” at a hearing on Friday, which could block the Government from proscribing the group.
Palestine Action campaigners are attempting to blockthe Government from banning it as a terrorist organisation
GB NewsA further hearing could then be held in the week of July 21 to decide whether the group will be given the green light to challenge the decision to ban it.
Yvette Cooper had announced plans to ban the group, which were expected to be published in a written statement today.
The ban would make membership or inviting support of the group a criminal offence under the Terrorism Act, carrying a maximum sentence of 14 years in prison.
The landmark decision would mean that the activists would be the first time a direct action protest group has been classified as a terrorist organisation, joining the likes of Islamic State, al-Qaida and National Action.
Palestine Action damaged two military aircraft recentlyPALESTINE ACTIONThe Government’s move comes after two planes were vandalised at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire on June 20 in an action claimed by Palestine Action, after which five people were arrested on suspicion of a terror offence.
Palestine Action previously posted footage online showing people inside the Oxfordshire base.
One protester appeared to ride an electric scooter up to an Airbus Voyager air-to-air refuelling tanker, before spray-painting it on the jet engine.
Palestine Action has staged demonstrations that have included spraying the London offices of Allianz Insurance with red paint and vandalising US President Donald Trump’s Turnberry golf course in South Ayrshire.
Yvette Cooper had announced plans to ban the group
GETTYCooper said the group’s methods have become "more aggressive", with its members showing "willingness to use violence".
The group has said it had "directly intervened in the genocide and prevented crimes against the Palestinian people" by "decommissioning two military planes".
Palestine Action said Thursday’s arrests "further demonstrates that proscription is not about enabling prosecutions under terrorism laws, it’s about cracking down on non-violent protests which disrupt the flow of arms to Israel during its genocide in Palestine".
Reacting to the news they were going to be proscribed, a spokesman told GB News: "This is an unhinged reaction to an action spraying paint in protest the UK Government arming Israel's slaughter of the Palestinian people.
"The real crime here is not red paint being sprayed on these war planes, but the war crimes that have been enabled with those planes because of the UK Government's complicity in Israel's genocide."
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