The High Court has granted Palestine Action’s application for a judicial review after MPs voted to ban it as a terrorist group.

The High Court ruled that several of the grounds that Palestine Action presented to the court as to why the government’s actions were unreasonable were upheld on Wednesday.

Palestine Action was proscribed under the Terrorism Act 2000 at the start of the month, after MPs overwhelmingly voted in favour of adding the protest group to the list of banned organisations with the likes of National Action, al Qaeda, ISIS and Hezbollah.

The decision made membership of, or support for, the direct action group a criminal offence punishable by up to 14 years in prison.

Even wearing a T-shirt or badge with the group’s name on attracts a maximum six-month sentence.

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper announced plans to proscribe the group after two Voyager aircraft were allegedly damaged at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire on 20 June, which police said caused around £7m worth of damage.

Since the order came into effect on 5 July, more than 100 people have been arrested for demonstrating in support of the group.

Lawyers for Huda Ammori, the group’s co-founder who filed the application, previously told the High Court the decision was “so extreme as to render the UK an international outlier”.

Raza Husain KC said: “We say the proscription of Palestine Action is repugnant to the tradition of the common law and contrary to the ECHR [European Convention on Human Rights].”

The UN’s high commissioner for human rights Volker Turk previously also called the proscription order a “disturbing misuse” of counter-terror laws, calling the government’s order “disproportionate and unnecessary”.

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