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English far-right activist Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon (born 27 November 1982), known as Tommy Robinson , is a British far-right and anti-Islam activist .1He is the co-founder and former leader of the English Defence League , and later served as a political advisor to former UKIP leader Gerard Batten .2 Robinson has been active in far-right politics for many years. He was a member of the neo-fascist and white nationalist British National Party (BNP) from 2004 to 2005. Robinson led the EDL from 2009 until 8 October 2013.3He continued as an activist, and in 2015 became involved with the development of Pegida UK , a now defunct British chapter of the German-based far-right organisation Pegida .4From 2017 to 2018, Robinson wrote for and appeared in online videos for Rebel News , a Canadian far-right political website. Robinson's criminal record includes convictions for violence, financial and immigration frauds, drug possession and public order offences. He has been committed to prison for contempt of court . He has served at least four separate terms of imprisonment: in 2005 for assault, in 2012 for using false travel documents to enter the United States, in 2014 for mortgage fraud, and, in May 2018, Robinson was committed to prison for 13 months for contempt of court after publishing a Facebook Live video of defendants entering a law court, contravening a court order that disallows reporting on such trials while proceedings are ongoing.5He served part of his sentence at HM Prison Hull in Kingston upon Hull before being transferred to HM Prison Onley in Warwickshire .6On 1 August 2018, due to procedural errors, he was released on bail pending a new hearing of the case. On 5 July 2019, Robinson was again found guilty of contempt of court at the retrial and was committed at the Old Bailey to nine months in prison on 11 July․ Before his sentencing, Robinson appeared on InfoWars and appealed for political asylum in the United States. He was released from prison on 13 September 2019 after serving 9 weeks.7Robinson denies racism and antisemitism , and has declared his support for the Jewish people and Israel , calling himself a Zionist . , despite having publicly supported someone accused of creating videos that featured "gas the Jews" and "Sieg Heil" in the soundtrack. Evidence of Bad Character (Third ed.). The New York Times . "A fight over a four-bedroom house: The Rebel Media meltdown and the full recording at the centre of the controversy" . "Lauren Southern: Far-right Canadian activist detained in Calais and banned from entering UK" . The Sydney Morning Herald . "UK anti-Islam activist Tommy Robinson freed on bail" . euronews . 1 August 2018 .8
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Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (born 27 November 1982), known by the pseudonym Tommy Robinson and also going by Andrew McMaster and Paul Harris , is the co-founder and former spokesman and leader of the English Defence League (EDL) "street protest" movement, and also founded the European Defence League . He led the EDL from 2009 until 8 October 2013, when he was persuaded to quit the organisation and to discuss alternative ways of tackling extremism with the think tank Quilliam .
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English far-right activist (born 1982) Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon (born 27 November 1982), better known as Tommy Robinson , is a British far-right , anti-Islam activist.He gained notoriety for his involvement in various far-right movements and was a political advisor to former UKIP leader Gerard Batten .Robinson has a criminal record, having been convicted of multiple counts of violence and fraud, among other crimes. Robinson has been active in far-right politics for many years. He was a member of the neo-fascist and white nationalist British National Party (BNP) from 2004 to 2005. Robinson led the EDL from 2009 until 8 October 2013. He continued as an activist, and in 2015 became involved with the development of Pegida UK , a now defunct British chapter of the German-based far-right organisation Pegida . From 2017 to 2018, Robinson wrote for and appeared in online videos for Rebel News , a Canadian far-right political website. Robinson has a long-standing criminal record.His convictions include for violence, stalking, financial and immigration frauds, drug possession and public order offences. He has been committed to prison for contempt of court . He has served at least four separate terms of imprisonment: in 2005 for assault, in 2012 for using false travel documents to enter the United States, in 2014 for mortgage fraud, and, in May 2018, Robinson was committed to prison for 13 months for contempt of court after publishing a Facebook Live video of defendants entering a law court, contravening a court order that disallows reporting on such trials while proceedings are ongoing. On 1 August 2018, due to procedural errors, he was released on bail pending a new hearing of the case. On 5 July 2019, Robinson was again found guilty of contempt of court at the retrial and was committed at the Old Bailey to nine months in prison on 11 July․ Before his sentencing, Robinson appeared on InfoWars and appealed for political asylum in the United States. He was released from prison on 13 September 2019 after serving 9 weeks. On 22 July 2021, Robinson was found to have libelled a 15-year-old refugee at a school in Huddersfield and was ordered to pay £100,000 plus legal costs, although Robinson had filed for bankruptcy in March 2021.In October 2021, he was made subject to a five-year stalking order for harassing the journalist Lizzie Dearden and her partner.
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British far-right activist (born 1982) For other uses, see Tommy Robinson (disambiguation) .Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon ( né Yaxley ; born 27 November 1982), better known as Tommy Robinson , is a British anti-Islam campaigner and one of the UK's most prominent far-right activists. Robinson has been active in far-right politics for many years. He was a member of the British National Party (BNP), a British fascist political party, from 2004 to 2005.He co-founded the English Defence League (EDL) in 2009 and led it until October 2013. In 2015 he became involved with the development of Pegida UK , a now-defunct British chapter of the German Pegida . From 2017 to 2018 he wrote and appeared in videos on the Canadian website Rebel News .In 2018 he also served as a political advisor to Gerard Batten , then the leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP).Robinson served four prison terms between 2005 and 2019.In 2013 he illegally entered the United States using a friend's passport.In 2018 he violated a court order by publishing a Facebook Live video of defendants entering court.Prior to sentencing, he appeared on the American far-right website InfoWars to appeal for political asylum in the US.In 2021 he was subjected to a five-year stalking prevention order for harassing the journalist Lizzie Dearden and her partner. In 2021 he was found to have libelled a 15-year-old refugee at a school in Huddersfield and was ordered to pay £100,000 plus legal costs. After breaching an injunction about repeating the libel, Robinson was sentenced to 18 months in prison for contempt of court in October 2024; the sentence length was later reduced after he said he would comply with the injunction in future.In June 2022 Robinson said that he spent £100,000 in gambling before declaring bankruptcy .He also said he owed an estimated £160,000 to HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).The Times said that he owes in the region of £2,000,000 to his creditors, and is the subject of a HMRC investigation over unpaid taxes."Tommy Robinson profile: Convicted criminal is one of UK's most prominent far-right activists" .
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co-founder and former spokesman and leader of the english defence league
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british anti-islam campaigner and one of the uk's most prominent far-right activists
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