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proscription

[proh-skrip-shuhn] / proʊˈskrɪp ʃən /


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Opening a major legal challenge to the group's proscription last year, lawyers for co-founder Huda Ammori said that no other protest organisation had been treated the same way.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

About 2,500 have been charged, though none have gone to trial as the legal challenge to the proscription continues.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

Thousands of people have been arrested since the proscription came into force, with their prosecutions now thrown into doubt.

From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2026

His written submissions to the court added: "The suffragettes would have been liable to proscription if the Terrorism Act 2000 regime had been in force at the turn of the 20th century."

From BBC ● Nov. 26, 2025

The Huguenot gentlemen mentioned in the list of proscription were already on the shore, and not a little eager to be in the first boats to put off.

From The Huguenot: (Volumes I-III) A Tale of the French Protestants. by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James


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