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Palestine Action has won a challenge in the High Court in London against the UK government’s ban, ruling that the decision to designate it as a terror group last summer was unlawful.
Friday’s judgment marks a significant victory to civil liberties campaigners, who had argued the ban represented a sweeping overreach of government power, risked criminalizing political dissent and set a far-reaching precedent for the use of anti-terror laws against protest movements.
In its judgment, the court found that then Home Secretary Yvette Cooper’s decision to ban the group last summer was disproportionate. However Judge Victoria Sharp ruled that the ban remains in place…