Tommy Robinson to request emergency political asylum in the United States

Paul Joseph Watson
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Mon, 08 Jul 2019 00:01 UTC

Tommy Robinson is set to ask President Donald Trump to give him emergency political asylum in the United States.

Last week, the activist was found in contempt of court over a Facebook Live broadcast of defendants in a criminal trial. Robinson and his supporters claim he was merely engaging in journalism in covering a sexual grooming gang case at Leeds Crown Court in May 2018.

Robinson now faces a maximum penalty of two years in jail.

However, he is set to ask for emergency political asylum in America over fears his life is at risk. Robinson told the BBC he was convicted "for who I am, not what I have done".

Robinson is set to appear on both the Alex Jones Show today and Tucker Carlson's Fox News show at some point this week to make the asylum request.

The United States Refugee Act of 1980, which is consistent with the United Nations' 1967 Protocol on Refugees, provides for the resettlement of persons subject to persecution in their homelands and includes cases where persons are likely to face persecution for their "political opinion".

Some of Robinson's supporters have expressed fears that another spell in prison could represent a death sentence if he is incarcerated amongst a large Muslim jail population.

Last time the activist was in jail, he lost over 40 pounds due to concerns about the inmates preparing his meals. He also complained about being on the receiving end of physical and psychological abuse.

Comment: Update from RT:

'Britain has fallen, freedom's gone' - Tommy Robinson asks Trump for political asylum in US
Published time: 9 Jul, 2019 08:17
Edited time: 9 Jul, 2019 13:45

British activist Tommy Robinson, who is facing jail time in the UK, has sought political asylum in the United States, claiming that he fears for his life as "dark forces are at work" in his home country.

"I feel like I'm two days away from being sentenced to death. In the UK. For journalism," Robinson told InfoWars on Monday after the UK High Court found him guilty of contempt. He's now pleading with the American government to help him escape the UK, addressing President Donald Trump directly.

"I beg Donald Trump, I beg the American government, to look at my case. I need evacuation out of this country because there are dark forces at work in this nation," Robinson stated in his video address.

The 36-year-old, who was previously an adviser to former UKIP leader Gerard Batten on grooming gangs and prison reform, even claimed he would be killed if he goes to jail, alleging that prisons in the UK are "controlled by jihadi gangs." The activist claims the UK government is trying to "silence" him and that he therefore has "no future" in Britain.

"Our freedom is gone. The country has fallen," he concluded.

Separately, Robinson also appealed to the US government through a US-based news website, the Gateway Pundit, urging Trump "to get his lawyers and his team" to look into the activist's case.

"I've already been unlawfully imprisoned, now I've been convicted - not by a jury of peers - but the government that got me through a back door," he stated, emphasizing once more that he's "been convicted for journalism."

"I'll be sent to prison to be murdered by a government who oppose and have taken our freedoms away," he declared, adding that the UK's "freedom of speech is gone and our freedom of press is gone - and whilst it goes, all the mainstream media celebrate it."

Robinson is widely known for his provocative activism, including courthouse broadcasts and videos depicting so-called "no-go zones" in some British communities, which he claims have been taken over by Muslim immigrants. He was also a co-founder of the English Defense League (EDL), a right-wing social organization hostile to immigrants and Islam, but broke ties with it in 2013, claiming he did not want to align himself with "far-right extremism."