Anti-genocide activist Majid Freeman walked free from court on Monday after jurors decided they could not reach a verdict on terrorism charges.

The Starmer government had prosecuted Freeman for expressing his support for Palestine’s right of resistance to Israeli oppression and genocide.

Supporters say the jury saw through the transparently political nature of the charges.

Majid Freeman welcomes a retrial

On leaving the court, Freeman said:

I welcome the opportunity of a retrial, because it means the evidence of what Israel has done to Gaza, the brutality, the systematic destruction of an entire people, will once again be placed before a jury of the British public. Let them see it again. Let the world be reminded again.

Stacked retrials

Starmer has been waging a ‘lawfare’ war on those who speak up for the rights of Palestinians and condemn Israel’s genocide and war crimes.

However, as in the case of the Filton 24, the regime’s determination to protect Israel is not accepting the outcome of the jury trials it wants to abolish.

The Crown Prosecution Service has obtained a retrial from the court and will put Freeman in the dock again in September 2027.

The court stacked the retrial of six Filton activists, who had already been in prison for a year and a half, banning lawyers and protesters from reminding the jury of their legal right to acquit.

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