TOMMY
ROBINSON EXCLUSIVE! Statement From Tommy In Prison
A
statement from Caolin Robertson, Tommy Robertson's manager
BREAKING: UK Journalists Successfully Challenge Tommy Robinson Reporting Ban in Court
Journalists
in the United Kingdom have successfully challenged the reporting ban
issued by a judge in the Tommy Robinson case.
Lizzie
Deardon of the Independent wrote to the judge asking for the ban to
be lifted and representatives from Leeds Live News made oral
argumentS on Tuesday.
“I
wrote to the judge asking for the order to be lifted and he said
representatives of the press also made oral submissions in Leeds
today,” Dearden, a Home Affairs Correspondent for the Independent,
tweeted. “So to everyone accusing the ‘MSM’ of being part of
some dark conspiracy, just remember that we’re the only reason
reporting this is now legal.”
Robinson,
a 35-year-old independent journalist and activist was arrested on
Friday for suspicion of breaching the peace for his reporting and is
now serving a 13 month sentence for contempt of court, as he already
had a suspended sentence for a similar offense. He was arrested,
charged and sentenced within five hours.
The
judge also issued a reporting restriction, barring the press from
covering Robinson’s case or imprisonment. Articles from the Daily
Record, Birmingham Live, The Mirror, and even Breitbart News were all
taken offline in the hours following his detention due to the order.
The
arrest was over his livestreaming outside the trial of a child
grooming gang. That trial is currently under a temporary reporting
ban over concerns that the defense could successfully argue that the
jury was tainted if there is public outrage over the details. That
reporting restriction remains in place.
Robinson’s
lawyer, Matthew Harding, told Leeds Live that his client was
“mindful, having spoken to others and taken advice, not to say
things that he thought would actually prejudice these proceedings.”
“Mr
Harding said Robinson had been the victim of assaults while serving
time in prison before and there had been ‘a price on his head’
during his last prison term with inmates being offered the reward of
drugs and mobile phones to kill him,” Leeds Live reports.
Harding
made this case during the hearing, but the judge stated that “people
have to understand that if they breach court orders there will be
very real consequences.”
Robinson
is a husband and father of three.
German
conservative MP Petr Bystron announced on Sunday that he is offering
the political prisoner asylum.
“Freedom
of speech is under attack all across Europe. I was at the AfD march
in Berlin today, where people were waving #FreeTommy signs. I grew up
under Communist dictatorship, and I will not let our freedoms be
taken away again,” Bystron told The Gateway Pundit.
On
Saturday, one day after Robinson’s imprisonment, hundreds of
supporters flooded Downing St. to demand his freedom.
29 May, 2018
Free speech advocates and supporters of Robinson's movement from Melbourne to Berlin came out by the thousands to protest the Friday arrest outside of Leeds Crown Court while Robinson was reporting on a pedophile grooming trial via Facebook livestream. Within six hours of his detention, Robinson was slapped with a 13 month prison term for violating a prior suspended sentence for a similar offense.
Britons Rage Over Robinson Arrest As Mass Protests Break Out Worldwide
Zero Hedge,29 May, 2018
The
arrest, imprisonment, and government-ordered media blackout of UK
journalist and activist Tommy Robinson has set off a firestorm
of protests around the world.
Free speech advocates and supporters of Robinson's movement from Melbourne to Berlin came out by the thousands to protest the Friday arrest outside of Leeds Crown Court while Robinson was reporting on a pedophile grooming trial via Facebook livestream. Within six hours of his detention, Robinson was slapped with a 13 month prison term for violating a prior suspended sentence for a similar offense.
“A
big police van with about seven police officers pulled up and
arrested [Robinson] and told him to stop live streaming,”
Robinson’s producer told RT
(before
their article (archived) was
scrubbed from the internet). “They said it was incitement and a
breach of the peace.
“No
peace has been breached – there were two other people there and
he’s been perfectly quiet talking into his phone. [The police] said
nothing about the court proceedings. It’s very strange.”
Equally
as disturbing are the implications of a court-ordered
media ban, making
it a criminal offense for news outlets operating in the UK to cover
Robinson's arrest and incarceration.
In a page straight out of George Orwell's 1984, several news outlets
were forced
to pull articles which
were published before the ban.
Mass protests broke out following Robinson's arrest - the largest of which was a crowd of thousands in the UK, demonstrating at the gates of Downing Street to demand the release of the conservative activist.
At least six demonstrations were held across Australia on Sunday in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Canberra, Brisbane and Adelaide.
Mass protests broke out following Robinson's arrest - the largest of which was a crowd of thousands in the UK, demonstrating at the gates of Downing Street to demand the release of the conservative activist.
At least six demonstrations were held across Australia on Sunday in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Canberra, Brisbane and Adelaide.
Is the Mirror's definition of "hundreds" (tinyurl.com/y7c53qqk) my definition of "thousands" (pic.twitter.com/F7aPUYNgKl)? Usual sh*t, different day. #FreeTommyRobbinson
Thousands protest the instant jailing of citizen-journalist Tommy Robinson, while social media goes dark after take-down notices. Is he out of order? Or does he have a point to make on free speech? Interesting Times for the UK. #FreeTommy #citizenjournalist
Hundreds
demonstrated in the German cities of Berlin and Dresden, while German
MP Petr Bystron has offered Robinson political asylum over
concerns for his safety in prison.
“Tommy
Robinson is a political prisoner, whose life is in clear and pressing
danger.
We have to do everything we can to make sure he is granted political
asylum,” said the office of conservative German MP Petr Bystron in
a Saturday statement provided to the Gateway Pundit's Cassandra
Fairbanks.
Ein guter Tag für Deutschland. Ein Albtraum für die #antifa. Für die #ZukunftDeutschland|s waren heute >5.000 Patrioten auf Berlins Straßen. Die Botschaft ist angekommen: die #AfD gibt unser Land nicht auf. @AfDimBundestag #AfDdemo #AfDwirkt
Dresden this evening.
German patriots marching for#TommyRobinson#FreeTommy #FreeTommyRobinson #UK #UKIP #MAGA #US #EU
Dutch
MP Geert Wilders showed up at the British Embassy in The Hague to
deliver comments.
"I
am here on behalf of millions. Freedom of speech is being violated
all over Europe and also in Britain. Restore freedom of speech."
-Geert Wilders, Dutch MP
Wilders
penned a letter to the Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs over the
weekend with five questions about Robinson's situation.
Parliamentary
questions to the Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs about the arrest
and safety of Tommy Robinson.
Robinson,
35, rose to fame as a conservative activist and founder of the
English Defence League in Luton, Bedfordshire in 2009. After retiring
from the party in 2013, Robinson has continued to advocate for
British nationalism and against unchecked migration into Europe.
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