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Far-right activist Tommy Robinson has been jailed for 18 months after admitting contempt of court by repeating false claims against a Syrian refugee. Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, admitted 10 breaches of a High Court order made in 2021, during a hearing at Woolwich Crown Court. Lawyers for the solicitor general accused the 41-year-old of “undermining” the rule of law. Passing sentence, Judge Mr Justice Johnson said the breaches of the injunction, which prevented Yaxley-Lenon from repeating the allegations, were not “accidental, negligent or merely reckless” and the custodial threshold was “amply crossed”. The hearing on Monday was the culmination of events that date back to October 2018. That month, a video went viral showing how Jamal Hijazi, a Syrian in West Yorkshire, had been attacked by another teenager at school. Yaxley-Lennon then posted his own response to one million Facebook followers alleging that his investigation had established that Mr Hijazi was a violent thug, a claim that was untrue. The Yaxley-Lennon video spread widely and the Syrian teenager and his family received death threats. Three years later, Mr Hijazi won £100,000 in damages when the High Court ruled Yaxley-Lennon’s claims against him had amounted to defamation. The court imposed an injunction on Yaxley-Lennon, banning him from making the false claims again. In February 2023, Yaxley-Lennon, who founded the long-defunct English Defence League (EDL), began repeating the claims and went on to post online a film claiming he had been “silenced” by the state. That film may have been viewed at least 47 million times. Eventually, this July, the anti-Islam activist showed the film to thousands of his supporters in London’s Trafalgar Square, saying he would not be silenced. The following day he left the country.

via bbc: Tommy Robinson jailed for contempt of court

siehe auch: England: Rechtsextremist Tommy Robinson muss ins Gefängnis Vor Jahren verbreitete Tommy Robinson falsche Behauptungen über einen Schuljungen und wurde dafür verurteilt. Weil er sie wiederholte, muss er nun ins Gefängnis. Der rechtsextreme britische Aktivist Tommy Robinson ist zu 18 Monaten Haft verurteilt worden, nachdem er falsche Behauptungen über einen geflüchteten Jungen aus Syrien aufgestellt hatte. Das meldete das Nachrichtenportal Sky News am Montag. Er war kurz zuvor in Untersuchungshaft gekommen. Der 41-Jährige gab demnach vor dem Woolwich Crown Court zu, gegen eine einstweilige Verfügung verstoßen zu haben, die nach einer erfolgreichen Verleumdungsklage im Jahr 2021 erlassen worden war.

Gabriel Budasz super-imposed himself as cop Derek Chauvin so he could physically ‘play the part’ of him kneeling down on the neck of George Floyd, a court heard. A sick white supremacist who live-streamed himself pretending to be the police officer who murdered George Floyd has been jailed. Gabriel Budasz, 24, super-imposed himself as cop Derek Chauvin so he could physically ‘play the part’ of him kneeling down on the neck of Mr Floyd, a court heard. Budasz, who a judge at Winchester Crown Court said had a “clear interest in white supremacy”, broadcast the sick video online. He also uploaded commentary of the Christchurch mass shootings – describing the murders as “beautiful” – and 3D printed a gun in his bedroom. Budasz, from Poland but living in the UK, was today jailed for 12 years. He had been unanimously convicted by a jury of disseminating a terrorist publication, four counts of encouraging terrorism and one count of sending an electronic communication with intent to cause distress or anxiety. He had also previously admitted six counts of possessing terrorist information at the Old Bailey in December last year. Budasz, with black shoulder-length hair, did not react as he was jailed at Winchester Crown Court. Prosecutor Maryam Syed KC told the court Budasz had shared a document titled ‘Praise Allah, bomb-making tutorial very interesting’. (…) “There were props used, particularly a gun which was printed by the defendant in his bedroom having paid for a 3D printer.” Ms Syed KC said it was “not merely a hollow shell of a gun” and he was looking into constructing a “real and working” gun. “This was a constructed set of broadcasting where the defendant wore a particular outfit which was to replicate his hero Brenton Tarrant,” she added.

via mirror: White supremacist ‘live-streamed himself pretending to be policeman who murdered George Floyd’

siehe auch: White supremacist who shared livestream of Christchurch terror attack from his Somerset home and threatened to kill ‘ns and Jews’ is jailed for 12 years. A white supremacist who shared a live stream of the Christchurch terror attack and acted out the killing of George Floyd while threatening to murder ‘n* and Jews’ has been jailed for 12 years. Gabriel Budasz posted extreme right-wing material under different usernames on a number of social media platforms – including Telegram, Omegle, and Odysee – which expressed ‘extreme racist views’ and encouraged audiences to direct action against others, a court heard. The 24-year-old, who was born in Poland but lived in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, also posted ‘step by step instructions’ on how to make explosives ‘from readily available, often household objects’, and built a plastic gun using a 3D printer, which he then used as a prop in online video posts. Judge Brian Forster, passing sentence at Winchester Crown Court on Thursday, told the defendant, who appeared with black, shoulder length hair: ‘The mindset evidence reveals that you had a clear interest in white supremacy, other terrorists including Brenton Tarrant, and massacres, including the Christchurch shootings. ‘You also posted on Twitter: ‘To any current or future state agents investigating me: I meant everything I said and more.