The UK Court of Appeal ruled on Friday that the British activist group Palestine Action may proceed with its legal challenge against the government’s decision to ban it under the Terrorism Act 2000 .

On Friday, Judge Sue Carr rejected the Home Office’s attempt to block the review, allowing co-founder Huda Ammori to bring the case before the High Court.

“[I]t’s time for the government to listen to the overwhelming and mounting backlash … and lift this widely condemned, utterly Orwellian ban,” Ammori wrote , in a statement issued following Friday’s decision.

In June, Home Secretary Yvette  Cooper announced that the group would be proscribed as a terrorist organisation under the Terrorism Act 2000 after members spray-painted two British aircraft allegedly holding weapons intend

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