British: Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, a British anti-Muslim activist who goes by the alias Tommy Robinson, was sentenced to 18 months in prison on Monday after admitting contempt of court for breaking an injunction issued after he was successfully sued for libel.
Jamal Hijazi, a Syrian refugee, filed a libel suit against Yaxley-Lennon at the London High Court. In 2021, the court ordered Yaxley-Lennon to pay damages. Additionally, he was subjected to an order prohibiting him from repeating the offensive statements.
Yaxley-Lennon admitted breaking the injunction when she appeared in London’s Woolwich Crown Court. Due to remarks made in online interviews and a documentary titled “Silenced,” which has been viewed millions of times and was shown in London’s Trafalgar Square in July, Yaxley-Lennon was the subject of legal action by the Solicitor General of Britain.
According to the Solicitor General’s attorney Aidan Eardley, Yaxley-Lennon was convicted of contempt in 2019 and found guilty on three separate occasions. He has also been convicted of separate crimes.
Sasha Wass, Yaxley-Lennon’s attorney, stated: Because he fervently supports free speech, a free press, and his overwhelming desire to expose the truth, he acted the way he did, and he accepts his responsibility for it.
Wass also stated that Alex Jones’ Infowars company, a US conspiracy theorist, had “effectively commissioned” “Silenced.”
Judge Jeremy Johnson condemned Yaxley-Lennon to year and a half, less three days spent in care after he was captured on Friday.
Yaxley-Lennon’s 18-month sentence could be reduced by four months, the judge said, if he tried to “purge” his contempt by taking down copies of “Silenced.”
In the wake of the murders of three young girls at a dance workshop in Southport, Yaxley-Lennon was accused by some politicians and the media of escalating tensions, which resulted in days of rioting throughout Britain at the end of July.
