[Far Right] Dutch MP overturns UK entry ban

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Source: BBC

Far-right Dutch MP Geert Wilders has won an appeal against a Home Office decision barring his entry to the UK.

The Asylum and Immigration Tribunal ruling overturns a government decision that led to Mr Wilder being turned back at Heathrow in February.

The Freedom Party leader, who has been accused of Islamophobia, planned a UK visit next week, his solicitor said.

The Home Office said it was disappointed, and would decide in "due course" whether to fight the ruling. A spokesman said: "We are disappointed by the court's decision. The government opposes extremism in all its forms. The decision to refuse Wilders admission was taken on the basis that his presence could have inflamed tensions between our communities and have led to inter-faith violence. We still maintain this view."

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Mr Wilders faces trial in his own country for inciting hatred.

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Mr Wilders' lawyer, Tiki Emezie, said his client was "very happy" at the ruling, and would attend a meeting with the UK Independence Party's Lord Pearson in London next week. In February, he had been invited by Lord Pearson to the House of Lords to show his controversial film Fitna, which caused outrage across the Muslim world when it was posted on the internet last year.

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