Adams ban 'to prevent revelation'
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Your support makes all the difference.GERRY ADAMS, the Sinn Fein president, was unlawfully banned from Britain to stop him embarrassing the Government by revealing to MPs the existence of secret talks on Northern Ireland, the High Court was told yesterday.
Lawyers for Mr Adams asked two judges to declare that the exclusion order, made last October under the Prevention of Terrorism Act, breached European and domestic law. The Home Secretary refused to revoke the order in January.
Robin Allen, for Mr Adams, said the ban coincided with an invitation to the Sinn Fein leader from Tony Benn, the Labour MP, to visit Parliament. It was at a time when he might have disclosed the existence of secret talks between Sinn Fein and the Government.
The hearing continues today.
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