Ezra is asking Elon to help Tommy
Dear Elon,
The way to free Tommy Robinson is through legal action. While he’s in prison he’s asked me to help with two urgent battles. Permit me to describe them for you, and all your followers:
1. Tommy was sentenced to 18 months in prison for publishing that documentary you just retweeted. The judge specifically referred to Twitter/X, and the video’s wide distribution when giving out the sentence. Tommy will likely be released in 9 months, but in the meantime he is being held in segregation (solitary confinement).
No man can do nine months of solitary without major mental health damage — it’s a form of torture, like what was done to Julian Assange. Remember, contempt of court in this case is a civil offence — not a crime. It’s outrageous and unprecedented that he be held in solitary, which is usually reserved for short-term punishments of violent prisoners who misbehave in prison.
We have hired a lawyer who is an expert in prison law to challenge the way he is being held. We just received the reply from the prison governor, refusing to move Tommy from solitary, saying that he must stay there because of “the polarising nature of his ideology”. You can see that letter here:
https://rebelgbp.nationbuilder.com/tommy_prison_legal_fund…
We are moving quickly to appeal that prison governor’s decision in a judicial review.
2. While Tommy is in prison, he is being charged with a bogus, trumped up charge under the Terrorism Act — a UK version of the Patriot Act. Obviously Tommy is not a terrorist (and police told him as much when they arrested him). They’re just using that extreme law to subject Tommy to questioning that he legally cannot refuse under the act and to search his phone without a warrant, as is also permitted in the act.
Tommy refused to give police the password to his cell phone without a warrant (he had both legal and journalistic confidences in it), so they’re prosecuting him for that, too. For each of these two battles we need both a solicitor and a barrister (they’re different people in the UK).
So we’re crowdfunding FOUR different lawyers. Frankly, we need help. Tommy has been debanked and deplatformed, so Tommy asked me and Rebel News to crowdfund his lawyers for him, which were doing at
http://SaveTommy.com. They really are throwing the unlimited resources of the state against him.
Not for a crime, but for a political and journalistic disagreement. I don’t think you’ll be able to change the mind of Keir Starmer, the authoritarian Prime Minister who used to be the UK’s chief prosecutor. But if you could help direct attention towards our legal crowdfund, I think we have a reasonable chance to get him into a more sensible prison for the rest of his sentence, and to swat down this bogus Terrorism Act charge.
Thanks!
Ezra Levant