The UK Home Office has lost its appeal to block Palestine Action from challenging its ban as a terror group. 

The Court of Appeal on Friday dismissed the government’s attempt to stop the judicial review of its decision to ban the group. 

During the hearing, the Appeal Court also granted Palestine Action’s co-founder, Huda Ammori, two further grounds to challenge the ban.

In a statement, Ammori praised the decision and said the “Court of Appeal has rightly rejected Yvette Cooper’s attempt to block a legal review of her absurdly authoritarian ban – while granting us additional grounds on which to challenge it”.

“This is a landmark victory : not only against one of the most extreme attacks on civil liberties in recent British history, but for the fundamental principle that government ministers can and must be held accountable when they act unlawfully,” Ammori said. 

“Arresting peaceful protestors and those disrupting the arms trade in a dangerous misuse of counter-terror resources, with over 2,000 people having now been arrested.” 

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