Responding to news that the Court of Appeal has ruled against the UK government’s attempt to stop the judicial review of the decision to proscribe Palestine Action, Kerry Moscogiuri, Amnesty International UK’s Director of Campaigns and Communications, said: 

“It is welcome news that the court has upheld the decision for the judicial review to go ahead.  

“There are serious human rights concerns around the proscription decision and the consequences it has had on free speech and assembly rights.  

“Amnesty International UK and Liberty will be intervening in the case to raise our urgent concerns about the disproportionate use of the government’s terrorism powers in proscribing Palestine Action. 

“It is clearly in the public interest for the proscription decision to be subject to full judicial scrutiny.”