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Tommy Robinson (real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon) stares down another lengthy imprisonment for contempt.

Robinson, a conservative, and critic of Islam, will serve 18 months in solitary surrounded by gang-affiliated Muslims.

The BBC, in a report, cut and pasted by The Spectator UK – and for the most part, Politico – said Robinson had breached 2018 restrictions on reporting.

He was imprisoned for 13 months for contempt in 2018 after a court found him guilty of “harassing defendants” in the infamous Muslim gang-rape trials.

Britain’s banned documentary – SILENCED pic.twitter.com/HKIBPsuZTA

— Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 (@TRobinsonNewEra) July 27, 2024

This was because the court took exception to Robinson “live-streaming reports outside Leeds Crown Court.” (Read the 16-page ruling here.)

Not considered a journalist, and therefore without the same protections afforded to legacy media, the judge, appealing to due process, shut Robinson down.

Overturning a successful appeal, the contempt charge was then upheld by Conservative (Tory) Attorney-General (A-G) Geoffrey Cox, who gave hungry prosecutors permission to chase the contempt conviction.

Cox justified the decision on the grounds that Robinson ‘published information subject to restrictions.’

Inferring intent, Cox also accused Robinson of inciting harassment, which had the added implication of spreading ‘Islamophobia’.

The UK A-G’s 2018 press release explained that Robinson put the rights of those accused of organised gang rape at ‘substantial risk.’

Cox then warned others against both commenting and documenting current affairs with a camera, stating,

“Posting material online that breaches reporting restrictions or risks prejudicing legal proceedings, is a very serious matter…”

“I would urge everyone,” he said,” to think carefully about whether their social media posts could amount to contempt of court.”

Censored

Since 2018, Robinson’s opponents – Muslim, Marxist, and lightweight Tories – have exploited the “that’s not journalism” decree.

Smeared as a “far-right, anti-Muslim agitator,” Robinson’s latest incarceration relates to his film Silenced.

The film, he told Jordan Peterson in a July interview, exposes state-sponsored censorship and the UK’s version of a weaponised judiciary.

Fulfilling Peterson’s prediction, YouTube has since blocked separately uploaded segments and restricted the interview as “inappropriate and offensive”.

Seen by over 57 million people on X, Robinson’s Silenced addresses a milieu of intrigue.

The film appears to expose censorship, potential corruption, judicial jihad, and show legacy media guarding government-approved narratives.

To paraphrase Rebel News’ ‘Save Tommy’ campaign, Silenced is why Robinson has been silenced.

“They don’t recognise him as a journalist, because he’s not on their narrative.”

The journalist and civil liberties activist Tommy Robinson was sentenced to 18 months in solitary confinement for publishing a documentary film that a judge ordered him not to do. My thoughts: pic.twitter.com/4QkdBYPGwA

— Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 (@ezralevant) October 28, 2024

According to the 28 October 2024 judgment, Robinson breached the 2018 libel ruling intended to gag his reporting.

This involved Jamal Hijazi, a Syrian immigrant and high school student at the time, who in 2018 was involved in an altercation with another student over an alleged assault on a young girl.

After legacy media turned the attack on Hijazi into a campaign against “systemic racism” in Britain, Robinson looked into the story.

Investigating the incident, and then reporting on what he found, Robinson alleged Hijazi was guilty, stating he was also involved in a gang.

Breaches

With the help of Muslim lawyers, Hijazi sued for libel and won.

This led to a court ordering Robinson neither to speak, comment about, nor publish anything remotely related to Hijazi.

Sentencing Robinson on Monday, the judge accused Robinson of breaking this “injunction” 10 times.

Sharing Silenced on X, and Peterson’s interview with Robinson was two of those 10 breaches.

The judge acknowledged that,

“Much of the film does not, in isolation, breach the injunction and is a lawful exercise of the defendant’s right to free speech.”

“However,” the judge said, Robinson “repeats allegations that are prohibited by the injunction, and those he interviews do likewise.”

“The purpose of” Robinson’s incarceration, he added, “is to punish a breach of the court’s order, and to secure future compliance.”

Additionally, the judge reminded prison governors that in Britain’s abnormal, overcrowded prison system, they had an “obligation to take reasonable steps to protect Robinson.”

The justice’s ruling also gave a nod to the elements of “civil disobedience” attached to Robinson’s “lack of remorse”.

Regardless, he said, the rule of law must be applied.

Contrary to legacy media insinuation, the ruling shows Robinson acquiescing to the 10 contempt charges, neither retracting, nor admitting that his reporting was wrong.

Robinson is adamant that what he’s covered in the documentary is true.

As such, he refuses to bury the story at the behest of a judiciary that he considers bound to serve a broader political agenda.

This latest prison sentence seems to prove him right.

Robinson won’t sit down and shut up.

So, they’ve locked him up again instead.

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