Palestine Action’s co-founder Huda Ammori is taking legal action against the Home Office over the decision to ban the group, with the full legal challenge due to be heard in November. Home Secretary Yvette Cooper’s decision to proscribe the group under anti-terror laws means that membership of, or support for, the direct action group is a criminal offence punishable by up to 14 years in prison. A protester outside the Royal Courts of Justice before Palestine Action was banned (Lucy North/PA)Ms Ammori was given the green light to challenge Palestine Action’s proscription by a High Court judge last month. She said: “The recent proscription of the group Palestine Action does not prevent those protests, and to claim otherwise is nonsense. “The clear advice and intelligence given to me earlier this year from the UK’s world-leading counter-terrorism system, based on a robust assessment process, was that Palestine Action satisfies the relevant tests in the Terrorism Act 2000 and should be proscribed.”