UK ban on Palestine Action at odds with international law, says UN rights chief

‘Disproportionate and unnecessary’: Volker Türk, the UN’s high commissioner for human rights. Photograph: Martial Trezzini/EPA

The UK government’s ban on Palestine Action limits the rights and freedoms of people in the UK and is at odds with international law, the UN human rights chief has said.

Volker Türk, the UN human rights commissioner, said ministers’ decision to designate the group a terrorist organisation was “disproportionate and unnecessary” and called on them to rescind it.