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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Jess Glass

Home Office appeal over Palestine Action ban legal challenge to be heard

Police officers and demonstrators during a Lift the Ban on Palestine Action protest earlier in September (Jeff Moore/PA) - (PA Wire)

The Home Office’s appeal against a High Court ruling which allowed Palestine Action’s co-founder to proceed with a legal challenge against the Government over the group’s ban as a terror organisation is set to be heard.

Huda Ammori is taking legal action against the department over then-home secretary Yvette Cooper’s decision to proscribe the group under anti-terror laws, which made membership of, or support for, the direct action group a criminal offence punishable by up to 14 years in prison.

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