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Evening Standard
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Jess Glass

Palestine Action terror ban made UK ‘international outlier’, High Court told

Protesters outside the Royal Courts of Justice earlier in July (Lucy North/PA) - (PA Wire)

Banning Palestine Action as a terror organisation had the hallmarks of a “blatant abuse of power” and made the UK an “international outlier”, the High Court has heard.

The group’s co-founder Huda Ammori is making a bid to legally challenge Home Secretary Yvette Cooper’s decision to proscribe the group under anti-terror laws, announced after the group claimed an action which saw two Voyager planes damaged at RAF Brize Norton on June 20.

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