Saturday, July 13, 2019

News: MEF Funds Tommy Robinson Defense ... To No Avail


I was outraged when I read Tommy Robinson was railroaded by the British legal system for merely reporting on Muslim pedophile-rape jihadists who were actually convicted. In the case of Robinson, he was actually convicted for making convicted Muslims anxious.

It was this moment I linked to a Tommy Robinson support page convinced even though he had already been given a legal raw deal, Robinson would still need support. For me it is irrelevant if for future legal fees or a way to help the Robinson family pay their bills while the breadwinner is unjustly incarcerated – THAT SUPPORT LINK on the Tommy Robinson website: https://www.tr.news/freedom-for-tommy

Other than feeling the outrage for the UK treatment of Free Speech Rights, I received a Middle East Forum press release update with some details on the Robinson conviction which you can read below.

JRH 7/13/19
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News: MEF Funds Tommy Robinson Defense ... To No Avail

MEF Press Release
July 12, 2019

Philadelphia – July 12, 2019 – The Middle East Forum again helped citizen-journalist Tommy Robinson defend himself from charges arising from his reporting in March 2018 outside a courthouse where a Muslim rape gang was on trial.

Mr. Robinson has been sentenced to nine months in jail, the culmination of the UK Establishment's dogged pursuit of an individual with the audacity to report on the UK's epidemic of Muslim rape grooming gangs. Although found guilty of a civil infraction he has been placed in HMP Belmarsh, a notoriously violent prison sometimes known as the "jihadi training camp."

In this latest round, Mr. Robinson is sentenced to jail for a technical violation of the UK's Contempt of Court Act of 1981 that allows judges to postpone the reporting of trials. However, "Worse than being selectively enforced, the Contempt Act appears to be exclusively enforced against Tommy Robinson when it comes to reporting outside courthouses," notes Marc Fink, the Forum's Legal Project director. Indeed, according a UK media guide (emphasis added):

Filming parties to proceedings as they arrive and leave the court house is also technically forbidden but in practice this rule is not enforced e.g. pictures of defendants and witnesses arriving and leaving the Royal Courts of Justice or the 'Old Bailey' are commonly shown. In May 2018, Mr. Robinson was arrested, tried, convicted, sentenced to 13 months prison, and jailed – all in the course of five hours. On August 1, Mr. Robinson won his appeal, with the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales denouncing "a fundamentally flawed process." But the UK's attorney general was undeterred, re-trying the case last week, this time putting on a better show trial.

The Forum most recently assisted Mr. Robinson by funding his legal team in an attempt to have the charges dismissed. In 2018, it funded, organized and staffed three "Free Tommy" London rallies and spurring Sam Brownback, the U.S. ambassador for International Religious Freedom, to raise the issue with UK officials, as well as other steps.

Mr. Robinson has acknowledged this assistance: "The political establishment here in the UK is doing everything possible to silence me solely for my views on political Islam. The Middle East Forum has been instrumental in assisting with my reoccurring legal challenges."

"The Middle East Forum continues to stand behind Mr. Robinson, in word and deed," notes Daniel Pipes, president of the Middle East Forum. "Right now, his life is in danger. The British authorities repeatedly have placed Mr. Robinson in the prisons most dangerous to his well-being."
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