LONDON: UK Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has been accused of running a “cynical media campaign” against Palestine Action that breaches her duties over a court case challenging the group’s banning.
Lawyers representing Palestine Action co-founder Huda Ammori sent a letter to the government’s legal department making the accusation, The Guardian reported on Friday.
Ammori has been given permission for a judicial review of Cooper’s decision in early July to ban the group under the UK Terrorism Act.
In the letter, Ammori’s lawyers from the firm Birnberg Peirce argue that Cooper’s public statements, widely reported in the media, are at odds with her disclosures in the review case at the High Court.
“At the centre of your client’s media campaign is an attempt to persuade the public that Palestine Action was proscribed for reasons which she is unable to reveal publicly and which are centred on violence and injuries against people,” the lawyers said.
