Tony Booth (@tonybooth1.bsky.social)

UK Home Office loses bid to block Palestine Action from challenging ban as terror group <article data-history-node-id="430319" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/uk-home-office-loses-bid-block-palestine-action-challenging-ban-terror" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/uk-home-office-loses-bid-block-palestine-action-challenging-ban-terror" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">UK Home Office loses bid to block Palestine Action from challenging ban as terror group</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>The UK Home Office has lost its appeal to block Palestine Action from challenging its ban as a terror group. </p> <p>The Court of Appeal on Friday dismissed the government's attempt to stop the judicial review of its decision to ban the group. </p> <p>During the judgement, four judges, including the Lady Chief Justice, also granted Palestine Action's co-founder, Huda Ammori, two further grounds to challenge the ban, that were previously rejected. </p> <p>These grounds include that the Home Secretary, at the time, failed to consider relevant information or/and considered irrelevant information, and that she failed to follow her published policy "which prescribes that certain factors may be taken into account".</p> <p>Following Friday's judgement, Ammori praised the decision and described it as an "authoritarian ban" that must be opposed.</p> <h3>Read more: <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-home-office-loses-bid-block-palestine-action-challenging-ban-terror-group"><span class="field field-title">UK Home Office loses bid to block Palestine Action from challenging ban as terror group</span></a></h3> <div alt="building in Birmingham" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="60f684e7-056b-4558-826a-ca8e7202add0" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/images-story/VXP-VX_Staff-12-Palestine%20Action%20occupy%20an%20Israeli%20owned%20weapons%20manufacturer%20building%20in%20Birmingham-May%2025%202021.jpg" width="1800" height="1138" alt="building in Birmingham" typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> </div> </div> </article> https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/uk-home-office-loses-bid-block-palestine-action-challenging-ban-terror