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Musk calls for jailed UK far-right activist Tommy Robinson to be released (www.aljazeera.com)

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Robinson, a one-time football hooligan with a string of UK criminal convictions, is serving an 18-month jail term after he admitted contempt of court in a long-running libel case involving a Syrian refugee.

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[–] 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Read it again. It literally says why he's serving 18 months. Hell, even the OP shared that paragraph.