{"id":86489,"date":"2026-02-13T14:43:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T14:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/palestine-action-wins-high-court-challenge-against-government-ban-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T14:43:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T14:43:46","slug":"palestine-action-wins-high-court-challenge-against-government-ban-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/palestine-action-wins-high-court-challenge-against-government-ban-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Palestine Action wins High Court challenge against government ban | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The High Court has ruled that the ban of Palestine Action under terrorism legislation is unlawful &#8211; but it remains <!--more--> in place for now.<\/p>\n<p>Three senior judges said that while Palestine Action use criminality to promote its aims, its activities had not crossed the very high bar to make it a terrorist organisation.<\/p>\n<p>The judges however rule the ban must remain until another hearing on 20 February on what happens next.<\/p>\n<p>The Met Police said it will continue to identify offences where support for Palestine Action is being shown, but will focus on gathering evidence rather than making arrests.<\/p>\n<p>The UK government said it will appeal the decision, with Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood saying she&#8217;s &#8220;disappointed\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Palestine Action&#8217;s co-founder Huda Ammori called the ruling a &#8220;monumental victory for both our fundamental freedoms in Britain and in the struggle for freedom for the Palestinian people\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#PalestineAction #UK #BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The High Court has ruled that the ban of Palestine Action under terrorism legislation is unlawful &#8211; but it remains<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}