The UK government closed the final day of the judicial review into Palestine Action by presenting secret evidence, hidden from both the group’s lawyers and the public, to justify its ban on the direct-action organisation.
Following brief open-court submissions from government lawyers on Tuesday, the court asked lawyers representing Palestine Action co-founder Huda Ammori, as well as members of the public and journalists, to leave.
A portion of Tuesday’s hearing was held in closed session to allow the government to present material it says cannot be disclosed on national security grounds. It means that if Ammori loses her case based on the secret evidence, neither she nor her team will know what the government argued against her or Palestine Action.
As if the attacking people with sledgehammers, open support of Hamas, ram-raiding a factory with workers inside, trashing business that have Jewish owners or workers, and breaking onto an RAF base to destroy the engines of two jets wasn’t enough?
And is there a source on this that isn’t the Middle East Eye?
Can you believe the nerve of THESE PEOPLE!? After hundreds of thousands of dead and years of genocide can you believe they would dare to engage in some extremely mild militancy? We have no choice but to use secret courts to ban them from public life