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Kolley Kibber

@camcamdamn

#FreeTommyRobinson is trending, because some people seem to think Stephen Yaxley-Lennon is a "hero" trying to bring child rape cases to light.
He tends to focus on other ethnicities though. So let's take a closer look at some of #TommyRobinson's fellow EDL members, shall we?

Meet Richard Price, former leader of the English Defence League. Convicted for possession of child pornography, and admitted making indecent images of children.
Tommy Robinson began a "Free Richard Price" campaign in 2011.
#FreeTommyRobinson

Meet Michael Coates, member of the English Defence League. Pleaded guilty to a total of eight charges of indecent assault and two of attempted rape in relation to a teenage girl, and a further four offences of indecent assault in relation to a second girl.
#FreeTommyRobinson

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Propaganda

@Unf4zed_W0lf

@SJRMercer @libcomorg No matter what you hate about him. He is still an example of Cesnorship. From his views the media has shut him up. Only channel that survives is YouTube. With restrictions on it. The media is trying to silence they're enemies. They even tried to put Mr Robinson in a sexual -

@SJRMercer @libcomorg Assault scandal in an attempt to tarnish his name further. He has proof of this in a documentary he released about a month ago called Panodrama. The reporter was bribing people to try and get false quotes. Despite the proof he still works at the BBC. And Hope not hate is still

@SJRMercer @libcomorg Working on their own documentary called Tommy takedown. Recently anyone even mentioning his name on Facebook will have their post removed and some people even banned. Every social media account he owns is gone. This is a level of censorship on the scale of sovietrussia

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Will Chamberlain 🇺🇸

@willchamberlain

Tommy’s barrister has been going for nearly an hour now, so I’ll thread out some observations

#FreeTommy #FreeTommyRobinson

A big issue for Tommy is going to be whether his appeal(s) will be thrown out for being time-barred (filed too late)

As @ezralevant noted, Tommy’s team is seeking to get both the contempt findings quashed - including the one from 2017

The appeals were “out of time” - too late.

Tommy’s barrister is arguing that the shenanigans the government pulled with Tommy made it very difficult to put a case together, and, as far as I can tell, that the judges should use their discretion to hear the appeal anyway

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Will Chamberlain

@willchamberlain

This thread from @lizziedearden does a much better job than I did at explaining contempt law and reporting restrictions in the UK. (hat tip, again, to the tireless @nickmon1112)

Let's talk reporting restrictions.

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Yesterday I found reporting restrictions nearly incomprehensible. They seem like an obvious affront to freedom of the press.

From the British perspective - our system is equally incomprehensible, because allowing the media to sensationalize cases makes trials unfair.

And, really, the British have a point.

Think about the Harvey Weinstein case. He's been effectively convicted in the eyes of the entire public before his trial has even started. Can you imagine any jurors really coming in as a blank slate?

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Will Chamberlain

@willchamberlain

The judge in Tommy Robinson's case, Denise Marson, pulled a neat trick today.

She threw him in jail for 13 months, and banned anyone in the UK from talking about it.

A thread on how she did it. (h/t @nickmon1112)

#FreeTommy #FreeTommyRobinson

A year ago, Tommy was convicted of Contempt of Court for filming 4 defendants who were alleged to have gang-raped a young woman. His sentence was suspended.

dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/artic…

Tommy argued that he didn't intend to derail the trial.

Under UK law, that doesn't matter - there is *strict liability* for *criminal* contempt charges.

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