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BNP faces court case over membership rules

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Submitted by AFAN team member Alan Murray a Christian on 04/09/2009 06:08
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 The British National party is being taken to court over claims its membership criteria breach human rights law. The Equality and Human Rights Commission said it had issued county court proceedings against the party leader, Nick Griffin, and two other officials today over the BNP's membership rules. The party's constitution limits members to people who are "'indigenous Caucasian' and defined 'ethnic groups' emanating from that race".

The commission first wrote to the BNP in June

read more at http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/aug/24/bnp-court-case-membership...

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