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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Holly Evans

Appeal against Palestine Action ban is not an ‘exceptional’ case, Home Office lawyers argue

A legal challenge over the ban of Palestine Action as a terror group is not “exceptional” and should not be heard at the High Court, lawyers for the Home Office have argued.

The group’s founder Huda Ammori is taking legal action after then-home secretary Yvette Cooper decided to proscribe the group as a terrorist organisation, making support or membership of the group a criminal offence, punishable by 14 years in prison.

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