TOMMY ROBINSON Report from USA

Dear Martin Clarke,

*Tommy Robinson is in prison.*

It’s an emergency — *we need your help. *

But there’s a court-ordered publication ban over the circumstances of his
imprisonment.

*That gag order only applies to the UK, though* — and I'm writing to you
from North America, where there is still some freedom of the press left.

*Please read this e-mail carefully, as it has information that the British
media are prohibited from publishing.*

On Friday, Tommy was reporting from outside the court house in Leeds, where
an accused Muslim rape gang was on trial for repeatedly raping British
girls as young as eleven years old. Tommy was broadcasting on Facebook,
from his cell phone.

Tommy was very careful:

   - He did not set foot on the court precinct.
   - He did not call the men “rapists”, but rather called them “accused
   rapists”.
   - In no way did he interfere with the trial, which was on its final day.
   - When Tommy mentioned the names of the accused rapists, he was reading
   from a BBC website — so the names were clearly public information, on the
   state broadcaster.

*Tommy did nothing wrong.*

But suddenly, seven police officers swarmed Tommy and threw him in the back
of a police van. You can *watch that shocking footage here*
<https://www.therebel.media/let_us_report_on_tommy_robinson?e=adbb2e67065dac81366f13862a7d5015&utm_source=therebel&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=el_tr_let_us_report&n=1>
:

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They said he was causing a disturbance, which is absurd — he was by himself
on the street, with only a cameraman and a friend.

*But it got worse. Much worse.*

Within hours, Tommy was summoned before the judge. Tommy’s long-time lawyer
was not informed of this. Rather, the court appointed a lawyer who didn’t
know Tommy and wasn’t an expert in the specialized law of contempt of court.

In a matter of minutes, Tommy was sent to prison — *with a 13-month
sentence.* He is now in HM Prison Hull, a brutal facility near Leeds.

*A 13-month prison sentence for Tommy is tantamount to a death sentence* —
every Muslim criminal in prison will be trying to murder him. They’ve tried
before.

The only alternative is for Tommy to request to be put into solitary
confinement — but no-one can live that way, locked up without any human
contact for 23 hours a day. Not for a year straight.

Tommy worked for us at The Rebel until this spring — we got him started in
journalism, and we parted ways amicably when Tommy went independent.

*And we still support him. *

*The day he was arrested, I spoke with Tommy’s wife and his lawyer, and
offered to help in any way.*

Last year, when Tommy worked for us, he was arrested outside of the court
in Canterbury. Back then, we crowdfunded a top-notch legal team, and we
were able to keep Tommy out of prison.

I offered to help again, and Tommy’s family and lawyer were grateful, but
they have asked that we hold off doing anything (including crowdfunding)
until they can have a proper conversation with Tommy.

Obviously we will respect the wishes of Tommy’s family and lawyer.

*But there is something else very important that we can do,  on our own: we
can go to court to have the ga
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