{"id":445854,"date":"2026-02-26T02:27:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T02:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/445854\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T02:27:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T02:27:14","slug":"home-office-allowed-to-appeal-palestine-action-court-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/445854\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Office allowed to appeal Palestine Action court ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Palestine Action was banned under the Terrorism Act 2000 by then-Home Secretary Yvette Cooper last summer, making it a criminal offence to belong to or express support for the group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thousands of people have been arrested since the proscription came into force, with their prosecutions now thrown into doubt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">London&#8217;s Metropolitan Police has said expressing support for Palestine Action &#8220;is still a criminal offence&#8221;, but it indicated officers were unlikely to arrest people at protests for backing the group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Wednesday, three High Court judges gave the green light to the Home Office to challenge their decision at the Court of Appeal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They also said the ruling quashing the ban was paused &#8220;pending determination of the defendant&#8217;s appeal to the Court of Appeal, or further order&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">No date for the appeal has been set.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Palestine Action was banned under the Terrorism Act 2000 by then-Home Secretary Yvette Cooper last summer, making it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-445854","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}