On 7 April, a British court lifted a home office ban on sheikh Raed Salah, leader of the largest Palestinian political party in Israel.
In June 2011, after entering the UK for a lecture tour, Salah was detained by British police and served with a deportation order on the grounds that he might incite racial hatred.
After three weeks’ detention, he was released on appeal but subjected to electronic tagging, a night-time curfew and daily reporting to a police station.
Salah has spent the last 10 months in the UK fighting to clear his name. The upper immigration tribunal ruled that his appeal had succeeded ‘on all grounds’, and all four charges against him were thrown out.
Topics: Israel-Palestine