UK Home Office loses bid to block Palestine Action from challenging ban as terror group

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 judgement, four judges, including the Lady Chief Justice, also granted Palestine Action's co-founder, Huda Ammori, two further grounds to challenge the ban, that were previously rejected. 

These grounds include that the Home Secretary, at the time, failed to consider relevant information or/and considered irrelevant information, and that she failed to follow her published policy "which prescribes that certain factors may be taken into account".

Following Friday's judgement, Ammori praised the decision and described it as an "authoritarian ban" that must be opposed.

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