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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Haroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent

Ban on Palestine Action is repugnant and should be lifted, high court told

Two police officers make an arrest outside the Royal Courts of Justice, carrying the suspect away
Police make an arrest outside the Royal Courts of Justice on Wednesday at the start of a legal challenge to the ban on Palestine Action. Photograph: Martin Godwin/The Guardian

The proscription of Palestine Action is a repugnant, unprecedented and disproportionate interference with the right to protest, the high court has heard.

On the first day of a legal challenge to the ban brought by co-founder Huda Ammori, her lawyer said the group had been engaged in an “honourable tradition” of direct action and civil disobedience prior to proscription.

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