The proscription of Palestine Action is a repugnant, unprecedented and disproportionate interference with the right to protest, the high court has heard.

On the first day of a legal challenge to the ban brought by co-founder Huda Ammori, her lawyer said the group had been engaged in an “honourable tradition” of direct action and civil disobedience prior to proscription.

Raza Husain KC told the court in London on Wednesday: “There are reasons of profound importance as to why, in the 32 executive orders that have been made adding organisations to proscribed lists, no direct action civil disobedience organisation appears.

“Such proscription is repugnant to the tradition of the common law and contrary to the European convention on human rights.”

Husain said the home secretary, Shabana

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