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Monday, June 4, 2018

Tommy Robinson Protests Continue For Second Week As Thousands Take To The Streets

Thousands of Tommy Robinson supporters and free speech advocates around the world took to the streets for a second week of protests against the imprisonment of the UK journalist and political activist. Robinson was arrested on May 25 outside Leeds Crown Court for reporting on a pedophile grooming trial. After a brief court proceeding in which he did not have access to his lawyer, Robinson was handed a 13-month prison sentence for violating the terms of a suspended sentence on a similar offense.

Demonstrations were held in Britain, Germany, the United States and several other countries. Around 400 people gathered outside Leeds Crown Court on Saturday for a march through the city center, while approximately 1,000 filled the streets of Manchester for a #FreeTommy demonstration, reported to have been spearheaded by the Democratic Football Lad's Alliance.

Germans gathered in Nuremberg to show their support for Robinson, while a crowd also protested outside the UK embassy in Denmark:

Across the pond, a rainy Sunday protest was held outside the British Embassy in Washington DC.

Robinson was admonished last year by Judge Heather Norton for filming outside a gang rape case in Canterbury, who slapped him with a three month suspended sentence on the condition that he cease his coverage of the trials.

you should be under no illusions that if you commit any further offence of any kind, and that would include, I would have thought a further contempt of court by similar actions, then that sentence of three months would be activated -Judge Heather Norton

“This is not about free speech, not about the freedom of the press, nor about legitimate journalism, and not about political correctness,” the judge told Robinson at the time.

Robinson's prior offense is what gave Judge Geoffrey Marson QC justification to lock him away within hours of his arrest. Disturbingly, Marson also ordered an Orwellian media blackout - which resulted in several publications deleting their articles from the web covering...

An Iranian military truck carries surface-to-air missiles past a portrait of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

More than 100,000 documents have reportedly been seized from a Tehran warehouse by agents from the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad.

ISRAEL has unveiled top secret files, which it claims prove Iran is trying to secretly build a nuclear bomb, it has been been reported.

It will now use the worrying "evidence" to pile pressure on the UK and its European partners to tear up the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran.

One document is said to be a 2001 memo handing responsibility for the production of weapons-grade enriched uranium to Iran's defence chiefs.

It was one of 100,000 files seized from a Tehran warehouse by agents of the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, reports the Times.

The haul will be made available to the security services of Britain, France and Germany ahead of this week's European visit by Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu.

He has made it clear he hopes to persuade the three countries to follow President Trump in withdrawing from the deal.

Israel insists newly seized documents prove Iran is trying to build nuclear weapons.

Netanyahu will use the new "findings" to try and convince PM Theresa May that the multinational accord is invalid since it is based on "lies".

Iran has always insisted it has never pursued a nuclear weapons programme, claiming it needs to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes.

“What Iran told the International Atomic Energy Agency about its capacities was almost comical compared to what we have here,” said an Israeli intelligence expert who has studied the documents.

“Iran said there had only been feasibility and scientific studies but what we see is that Iran ran a fully fledged nuclear weapons programme and that it followed directions from the political levels.”

Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, is due meet Theresa May on Wednesday.

The memo shown to The Times - from the Iranian atomic energy authority to the defence ministry - authorises the military to take over the task of enriching uranium.

Some of the higher levels mentioned in the seized document are said to suggest the intention to create a nuclear weapon.

The document is signed on behalf of the Iranian army by Amir Daryaban Ali Shamkami, who is now military adviser to the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

The news comes just a week after satellite imagery showed Iran may be developing long-range ballistic missiles capable of hitting the US and Europe at...