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Matthew Weaver

UK campaign group chief says Poland deported him at France’s request

Muhammad Rabbani in 2017.
Cage’s Muhammad Rabbani in 2017. The group campaigns on behalf of people affected by the ‘war on terror’. Photograph: Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP/Getty Images

The UK director of the campaign group Cage has claimed he has been deported from Poland at the behest of French authorities because he criticised Emmanuel Macron’s government for Islamophobia.

Muhammad Rabbani, who heads a group that campaigns on behalf of those affected by the “war on terror”, was due to give a speech this week at an international security conference in Warsaw that would have been critical of France’s handling of anti-government protests.

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