Journalist Richard Medhurst is one of a string of UK journalists raided, harassed, detained and facing potential criminal charges for exposing Israel’s genocide and other crimes, under the Starmer regime’s misuse of the Terrorism Act 2000 to protect Israel by waging a ‘lawfare’ war on the legal rights, freedom of speech and protest rights of UK citizens.

Richard Medhurst: challenging the Attorney General

In a post on X Medhurst, whom the state is keeping waiting to find out if he will face charges and trial for refusing to give up his journalistic privilege and give police and intelligence forces the passwords for his devices, has challenged the fitness of Keir Starmer’s Attorney General Richard Hermer for his role, given Hermer’s open admission that he has “dear family members currently serving in” the Israeli occupation military.

Richard Medhurst wrote:

The Attorney General, who has the final say on potential terrorism charges against me for my reporting on Israel has “dear family members serving in the IDF”.

The govt lawyers and police unit investigating me have all been in contact with the Israeli embassy in London for reasons unknown. How is this not a direct conflict of interest and being looked into for political and foreign influence?

Last September, Hermer’s office passed contact information for police chiefs and the Crown Prosecution Service to the Israeli embassy in London, for discussion of a case involving eighteen members of non-violent direct action group Palestine Action – before it was proscribed by Starmer as a terrorist organisation. The ‘Filton 18’ were then jailed and have been held for a year, with two months still to go before they even reach trial.

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By Skwawkbox

This post was originally published on Canary.